Microsoft's programmers may have been creating some of the biggest and most important software titles back in the 1980s, but that didn’t stop them from joking around when crafting the code that powered them.
Yesterday, Microsoft and the Computer History Museum released the source code for early versions of Microsoft’s MS-DOS and Word programs, which one developer ciphered through and found hidden jokes.
Lines like “coded inline because we’re Gods,” were hidden throughout, the f-bomb gets dropped a few times, and programmers commented on their “dumb users.” All of the unusual comments can be seen below.