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Is there an app for this too?

—srikanth @ January 13, 2012

Stumbled across this bit of computer history recently. 3 examples of what technology?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Bharath, Rogi, rickde, Manish Achuth, Ananth, shrik, rohanquizzer, jowens, Vishwas B Sharma, KK, badideabear and tsmyelin

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The Cauzin Softstrip - an early commercial 2D barcode system. These strips encode entire computer programs - you see 3 examples of software distributed as softstrips!


Say WHEN

—srikanth @ January 12, 2012

Plaintext question. Obviously, rampant googling might occur, but then again we trust you to not do it, so please don’t :P

“Formal” syntax of what?
Accept-Additions = “Accept-Additions” “:”
#( addition-range [ accept-params ] )

    addition-type   = ( "*"
                      | milk-type
                      | syrup-type
                      | sweetener-type
                      | spice-type
                      | alcohol-type
                      ) *( ";" parameter )
    milk-type       = ( "Cream" | "Half-and-half" | "Whole-milk"
                      | "Part-Skim" | "Skim" | "Non-Dairy" )
    syrup-type      = ( "Vanilla" | "Almond" | "Raspberry"
                      | "Chocolate" )
    alcohol-type    = ( "Whisky" | "Rum" | "Kahlua" | "Aquavit" )

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Bharath, Rogi, rickde, Manish Achuth, Ananth, shrik, Vishwas B Sharma, rohanquizzer, KK, Shwetha Maiya, siddhanthrao and jowens

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The HTCPCP : Hypertext Coffee Pot Control Protocol


Mmmm pie...

—srikanth @ January 11, 2012

Sitter sitter everywhere… Who holding up what?

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Urthstripe, rickde, jowens, Anjul, badideabear, Bharath, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Rajesh, shrik, KK, tsmyelin, Manish Achuth, debjani, Gurupad, siddhanthrao, Ananth and Kaustubh Mhatre

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Carl Sagan holding up the actual Pioneer plaque


First superheroes, now this.

—srikanth @ January 10, 2012

What is this representing? My apologies in advance for the tacky collage :P

Question will auto-mod on the 14th.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, Rajesh, rickde, KK, Gurupad, Manish Achuth, rohanquizzer, shrik, soda buddi, Salil, Jayaprakash B R, jowens, Dibyo, Logik, Anjul, badideabear and Rogi

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Nvidia GPU codenames - they’ve recennly started naming them after famous scientists.


No, really.

—srikanth @ January 9, 2012

What’s going on here?

(Question will be modded on the 14th)

Cracked by Raghuvansh, Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, Prasad, rickde, KK, Gurupad, Manish Achuth, rohanquizzer, shrik, soda buddi, Vishwas B Sharma, Jayaprakash B R, jowens, Dibyo, badideabear, Kaustubh Mhatre, Rogi, Ananth, debjani and Shwetha Maiya

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A toaster running NetBSD . Some people took the “NetBSD runs on ANYTHING” philosophy to a fairly extreme end and created this toaster running the OS.


The one that started it all

—srikanth @ January 8, 2012

Something to capture the ‘mood of the moment’ in the world of shiny gadgets. Where’s this photo from?

Question will be modded on the 14th.

Cracked by Rajesh, Rogi, Raghuvansh, Sumanth Patlolla, Bharath, Anjul, Prasad, rickde, KK, Gurupad, Manish Achuth, shrik, soda buddi, Jayaprakash B R, Vishwas B Sharma, jowens, badideabear, Kaustubh Mhatre, Ananth, rohanquizzer, Shwetha Maiya and siddhanthrao


Play guitar hero on this?

—srikanth @ January 7, 2012

You probably know what’s on the left. What’s on the right?

Cracked by Raghuvansh, Rajesh, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Bharath, KK, rickde, Gurupad, Manish Achuth, rohanquizzer, shrik, soda buddi, jowens, Vishwas B Sharma, Dibyo, badideabear, Ananth and debjani.

We’ve been a bit liberal with this one.


3 Sides

—devadutta @ January 6, 2012

What is this?

Cracked by shrik, debjani, Ananth, Manish Achuth, Rogi, jowens, Bharath, KK, rickde, Sumanth Patlolla, Vishwas B Sharma, Rajesh, Anjul, rohanquizzer, Dibyo, badideabear, Shwetha Maiya, Gurupad, Raghuvansh, soda buddi and Saill


Read this

—devadutta @ January 5, 2012

These guys are the founders of a very popular web company. The site has an interesting story. For the longest time, it was called a clone or another popular website, but of late, they have surged ahead of the site they supposedly “cloned”. Which company are these three the founders of?

My horrible paint job on the image hides their mascot.

Cracked by badideabear, Manish Achuth, rohanquizzer, Jayaprakash B R, Rogi, byslexia, jowens, Sumanth Patlolla, rickde, shrik, Saill, Bharath, Nandha K Samy, Ananth, Thejas V R, debjani, KK, Vishwas B Sharma, Dibyo, Shwetha Maiya, Gurupad, Raghuvansh, Prasad, soda buddi, Logik and Anjul


Where's this Waldo from?

—devadutta @ January 4, 2012

1 is one of the first occurance of this type of art. 2 is also an early example. Even now, stuff like 3 can be routinely seen. Tell us where you can see this type of art and also what it is known as.

Cracked by Rajesh, rickde, raklodramA, shrik, Manish Achuth, Nandha K Samy, KK, Vishwas B Sharma, jowens, Sumanth Patlolla, rohanquizzer, Rogi, arjun narayanan, byslexia, Bharath, Anjul, badideabear, Kaustubh Mhatre, Ananth, Thejas V R, debjani, Dibyo, Shwetha Maiya, Gurupad, Raghuvansh, Shivathilak, Prasad and soda buddi