So I was deep in a debugging session last week — one of those 3 AM, "why is this even happening" kind of nights — and I started going down a rabbit hole.
What if the bug I'm staring at isn't a bug? What if some of the most iconic moments in tech history were born from a broken line of code that nobody meant to write?
Turns out, yes. Absolutely yes. Here are three real stories that prove bugs aren't always your enemy.
Let's go back to the 1970s. Computer memory was brutally expensive back then. We're talking about the kind of expensive where engineers lost sleep just thinking about storage costs. So programmers all across the industry made one very logical, very reasonable decision — they stored years using only two digits.
1975 became 75. 1999 became 99. Simple, clean, memory-efficient.
