Flashback a couple decades to the days when this pilot fish is a student working on an IT team at a local government office.

“We developed an office management system for them and coded it up,” says fish. “However I had an evil sense of humor, and managed to get the code from a tank-battle game to put what looks like a crack on the computer screen.

“Then I wrote, at a certain point in the manual, that users should never press a certain set of keys. There was no chance to accidentally press that key combination. But when it was pressed, it caused a countdown clock to appear on the screen, then a crack would appear on the screen for seven seconds, then disappear.

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