A team of curious techies poke around very old Mac hardware, and find some files they can't immediately figure out. The results can be considered Easter eggs, but the lead tech prefers to call them Ghosts in the ROM.
Ghostly indeed is the first file they figure out, as faces surface from the code. Some of these folks are now dead, it seems:
The ghost metaphor is one that's been with digital technology fears from the beginning. "Ghost in the machine" is a longrunning meme.
(via HackerNews)
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