I love these kinds of stories. They&#x27;re like the programmer&#x27;s version of a detective story, with the twist that you always somehow learn some weird obscure fact about people or the Internet:<p>- A web browser plug-in loads Google&#x27;s homepage in the background.<p>- There&#x27;s a weird standard to writing Polish characters with diacritics.<p>- Some Windows systems carry around this decades-old bitmapped font.<p>I think it&#x27;s similar to why I love those lists titled &quot;X myths that programmers believe about Y&quot;. It&#x27;s insane how varied the world is and how that comes out when we deal with as many domains as we do when programming.