HN shares it whenever Zork or text adventures come up, as a fun tribute for geeks.
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The best computing culture (other) videos, according to Hacker News
17 videos about computing culture (other) that Hacker News commenters keep pointing each other to, ranked by how many separate months they were recommended. Part of Computing History & Culture.
Recommended as a savage, ahead-of-its-time parody of startup and tech culture.
Recommended in Max Headroom threads as a surprisingly good, short original film.
HN commenters link it as a fond example of elaborate hidden Easter eggs in old Microsoft Office.
Used purely as a joke reference when gull-wing doors or tech-money excess come up.
Used as a joke whenever a tech executive acts like Belson, surrounded by yes-men or making grandiose claims.
Mostly used as a reference for Clippy as an annoying assistant, including as a precedent for forced AI features.
HN mostly references it as Lisp-culture humor and a nod to Kanefsky's song.
Linked for nostalgia, as an instant audio time-travel to the early instant messaging era.
HN mostly cites it as a joke or parody whenever startups or tech companies claim lofty missions.
HN commenters post it as a nostalgic joke or pun in Winamp threads, and sometimes for the classic startup audio.
HN cites it as the classic demo failure, in threads about USB, plug and play, and Microsoft's shipping quality.
It is linked as an audio and visual example of IBM's corporate rally songs in threads about IBM culture.
Cited as the classic, unintentionally hilarious example of early voice recognition failing, and of how dictation used to feel.
Commenters cite it as a concrete example of distributing data over TV broadcasts in discussions of unusual data channels.
Referenced only as a nostalgic, cringeworthy joke in threads about floppies and piracy.
HN uses it as a nostalgic example of the promised any-media-on-demand future that never fully arrived.
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