Computer humour

intentional inside joke, hidden message or image, or secret feature of a work

xkcd (sometimes styled XKCD) is a serial webcomic created in 2005 by American author Randall Munroe. The comic's tagline describes it as "a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language". Munroe states on the comic's website that the name of the comic is not an acronym but "just a word with no phonetic pronunciation".

software language not aimed for serious use

Dilbert is an American comic strip which was written and illustrated by Scott Adams, first published on April 16, 1989. It is known for its satirical office humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office with engineer Dilbert as the title character. It has led to dozens of books, an animated television series, a video game, and hundreds of themed merchandise items. Dilbert Future and The Joy of Work are among the best-selling books in the series. In 1997, Adams received the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award and the Newspaper Comic Strip Award for his work. Dilbert appears online and a

special computer file that discards all writes

computer Easter egg found in the Netscape and Mozilla series of web browsers

right|thumb|Don Woods (programmer)|Don Woods, one of the authors of INTERCAL, in 2010 thumb|Jim Lyon, the other author of INTERCAL, in 2005

proposal to carry IP traffic by birds

expression

collection of definitions from computer subcultures

communications protocol for controlling, monitoring, and diagnosing coffee pots

"Press any key to continue"; prompt to indicate that user input is needed to continue a process

fictional character created by Simon Travaglia. a rogue system administrator who takes out his anger on users

computer programming contest

Hexspeak is a novelty form of variant English spelling using the hexadecimal digits. Created by programmers as memorable magic numbers, hexspeak words can serve as a clear and unique identifier with which to mark memory or data.

common method of quality control, data acquisition, and data analysis

several computer machine code instructions that cause a computer's CPU to halt

humorous aphorism in computer programming

humorous technical standard proposal

essay by Geoffrey James

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webcomic drawn by J. D. Frazer as Illiad

thumb|Lights on the front panel of a DEC PDP-8 (1965) thumb|The Harwell Dekatron Computer does arithmetic at approximately human speed. Watching the lights allows one to follow the instructions and the changing data as it runs the Squares program displayed on the panels In computer jargon, blinkenlights are diagnostic lights on front panels of old mainframe computers. More recently the term applies to status lights of modern network hardware (modems, network hubs, etc.). Blinkenlights disappeared from more recent computers for a number of reasons, the most important being the fact that with fa

A user error is an error made by the human user of a complex system, usually a computer system, in interacting with it; sometimes used jokingly

phrase used in titles of diatribes and other critical essays

term used to refer to user or political layer on top of the 7-layer OSI model of computer networking

1983 essay about programming

fictional IPv4 header field indicating malicious intent

thumb|kremvax.DEMOS|demos[[.su, a follow-up server in 2007]] Kremvax was originally a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, named like the then large number of Usenet VAXen with names of the form foovax. Kremvax was announced on April 1, 1984, in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko. The posting was actually forged by Piet Beertema of CWI (in Amsterdam) as an April Fool's prank—"because the notion that Usenet might ever penetrate the Iron Curtain seemed so totally absurd at the time".

In computer programming, COMEFROM is a control flow statement that causes control flow to jump to the statement after it when control reaches the point specified by the COMEFROM argument. The statement is intended to be the opposite of goto and is considered to be more a joke than serious computer science. Often the specified jump point is identified as a label. For example, COMEFROM x specifies that when control reaches the label x, then control continues at the statement after the COMEFROM.

smoke produced by burning out electronics

humorous fictional type of computer memory