<story><title>Some of the error messages produced by Apple&apos;s MPW C compiler (2006)</title><url>https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jasonh/personal/humor/compile.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonhohle</author><text>I miss this kind of playfulness in computing.&lt;p&gt;When I was at Amazon my manager told me that several years earlier he was responsible for updating the 404 page so he scanned a picture of a cat his daughter drew and made that the body of the page. In 2009 when I started, that was still the image, but at some point someone must have noticed and replaced it with a stock photo of a dog. The asset was still called kayli-kitty.jpg, though. It’s since been changed again to rotating pictures and references to the original are gone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>varun_ch</author><text>This is really cool! The filename on certain Amazon 404 pages (eg. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.co.jp&amp;#x2F;404&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.co.jp&amp;#x2F;404&lt;/a&gt;) is still kailey-kitty.gif (but the image has been replaced with a standard icon).&lt;p&gt;I also found this comment from him on a blog: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.davebellous.com&amp;#x2F;2006&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;25&amp;#x2F;what-the&amp;#x2F;#comment-29013&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.davebellous.com&amp;#x2F;2006&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;25&amp;#x2F;what-the&amp;#x2F;#comment-290...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Some of the error messages produced by Apple&apos;s MPW C compiler (2006)</title><url>https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jasonh/personal/humor/compile.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonhohle</author><text>I miss this kind of playfulness in computing.&lt;p&gt;When I was at Amazon my manager told me that several years earlier he was responsible for updating the 404 page so he scanned a picture of a cat his daughter drew and made that the body of the page. In 2009 when I started, that was still the image, but at some point someone must have noticed and replaced it with a stock photo of a dog. The asset was still called kayli-kitty.jpg, though. It’s since been changed again to rotating pictures and references to the original are gone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hgs3</author><text>&amp;gt; The compiler is 324k in size&lt;p&gt;Playfulness isn&amp;#x27;t the only thing we&amp;#x27;ve lost. Software bloat has reached comedic levels.</text></comment>