Give credit where credit is due.
If you ever really wanted to know the names of all the people who gave their blood, sweat, and tears to TiVo, here is your chance meet them—virtually at least.
If
you have a television with Closed Captioning (or have access to the
tivovbi to
simulate Closed Captioning [Hack #42]), turn it on and surf
your way to the Browse By Name or
Search by Title menu. Enter
SHAGWELL as the name of the show
you're looking for and press the
button.
Stand up and applaud—if you're so inclined—as the names of the developers scroll by (see Figure 1-7).
This is actually a rather common so-called "Easter egg," a silly surprise hidden by a programmer or programming team for chance discovery. You'll find Easter eggs sporting the names of developers in about any computer operating system or software product—even, in the case of the original 1984 Macintosh, molded into the interior plastic shell of the computer.
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