When they got flakes of mushed wheat the brothers toasted them. The flakes were a hit with the patients, so they tried the recipe on other grains, settling on corn and creating Kellogg’s Cornflakes. #bug2feature
The Kellogg brothers tried to salvage some old cooked wheat by forcing it through rollers. They’d hoped to make sheets of dough to feed the patients at their sanitarium. #bug2feature
Instead, the broken chips of the Nestlé chocolate kept their shape and remained as lumps in Ruth’s cookies. She served them anyway, and they proved to be a big hit. The chocolate-chip cookie was born! #bug2feature
Ruth Graves Wakefield ran out of baker’s chocolate as she was trying to make some cookies for her guests at the Toll House Inn. So, she decided to chop a block of chocolate, thinking it would melt. #bug2feature
In 1981, while developing the IBM PC, programmers had to reboot after every coding glitch. The PC would load again only after a lengthy series of memory tests. Frustrating! #bug2feature
The famous Konami Code was shipped by mistake. To make testing quicker by skipping stages, the developer of the ’86 NES game Gradius added the code and then accidentally left it in the final product.
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In 1997, @IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer made a genius move during a chess game with Grandmaster Garry Kasparov. It threw @Kasparov63 off his game, and he lost. #bug2feature
Did you know that a Space Invaders bug became a core gaming feature? The render time for the aliens changed depending on how many the game needed to draw. #bug2feature