If you want to send a hidden message the best place to put it is in plain sight.
Those that know me well know that I am a fan of “Wierd Fish” T-shirts with the hidden message and I also get some printed with “in” jokes. I have to take my hat off to Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore.
I know it was a few months ago but he was seen wearing this T shirt which looks like its just got a Window10 logo on it. If you look carefully you will see its a series of 1’s and 0’s in other words binary. Binary only has two characters but its how computers store data. This can then be translated into words, its how computers store data.
Someone with more time than me, Twitter user Kévin Gosse evidently went through and decoded each pane of the logo to find
what was written. Here are the messages.
- There are 10 types of people in the world
- Windows 10, because 7 8 9.
- Congrats on being one of the first.
- Windows Insiders help us develop the future. Talk to us @ Windows
I have a T shirt with the first, its an old IT joke, the punchline is “those that understand binary, and those who don’t”, think about it – binary “10” translates to “2”.
The second read out loud ” 7 ate 9″. The next two messages can mean as much as you want them to.
So once again, IT is not mundane, it has loads of knowledgeable people who have an innate sense of fun, the rest of those who think they are in IT are just “so unhip, it’s a wonder your bums don’t fall off” – Douglas Adams .
An interesting and amusing post, especially for a non-IT person like me, but unfortunately spoilt by an ungrammatical misquote at the end.
“Shee, you guys are so unhip it’s a wonder your bums don’t fall off.” [Notice the pronouns and lack of apostrophe in a simple plural – bums].
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