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This Date Will Crash Your Code
Discover the bizarrely specific date that throws a runtime error in Ruby, and it's not a bug. It’s a 440-year-old history lesson baked directly into the language's source code.
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Industry Insights
The Email War That Almost Broke The Internet
Imagine an email address 50 characters long that had to include your country code. This is the untold story of how a simple, 'worse' protocol defeated a corporate giant to build the email we use today.
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The Bug That Broke The Internet
In 1988, a grad student's experiment accidentally unleashed a digital plague that crashed 10% of the early internet. This is the untold story of the Morris Worm and how it created cybersecurity as we know it.
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