To tell the age of any horse Inspect the lower jaw of course; The six front teeth the tale will tell, And every doubt and fear dispel.
Two middle nippers you behold Before the colt is two weeks old; Before eight weeks two more will come Eight months: the corners cut the gum.
At two the middle “Nippers” drop: At three the second pair can’t stop; When four years old the third pair goes, At five a full new set he shows.
The deep black spots will pass from view At six years from the middle two; The second pair at seven years; At eight the spot each corner clears.
From the middle “Nippers” upper jaw At nine the black spots will withdraw. The second pair at ten are bright; Eleven finds the corners light.
As time goes on the horsemen know The oval teeth three-sided grow; Then longer get - project before - Till twenty, when they know no more."
The phrase “don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” comes from this. If someone gives you a horse, you shouldn’t look into its mouth to see how old it is because, hey, free horse.
Loading a program from disk on the Commodore 64
LOAD"*",8,1
I haven’t loaded a game on that system since I was probably 10 or so, but I’ll never forget the command.
I memorized it as L-O-A-D shift-2 star shift-2 comma eight comma one.
I choose to believe that the * means everything… but what does the 8,1 signify?
There’s another user who replied to me who answered much better than I could.
Along these lines, I have several important memory locations memorized. POKE 53280 and 1 to change the border and background colors. 828 is the cassette buffer, and 49152 the free memory above BASIC ROM. SYS 64738 resets the machine.
I also can recite the powers of 2 up to 65536.
doom cheat codes:
IDDQD, god mode
IDKFA, ammo
IDSPISPOPD, no clip i thinkSPISPOPD stands for ‘Smashing pumpkins into small piles of putrid debris’.
Back in the usenet days I remember someone making a crappy freeware game with that title.
That’s right, a cheat code in a game inspired the creation of another game.
The cheat code was inspired by a Usenet meme, could be the game was also inspired by the meme
You could use the IDKFA code in MechWarrior 2 as well.
If you did, it would immediately eject you from the mech and display a message something along the lines of “this isn’t doom you idiot”.
Same in Heretic - IDKFA takes all your weapons and ammo, IDDQD kills you.
And I think both codes do a similar thing in Earthworm Jim.
I might as well go first. A friend read this to me once over the phone in 1997 or thereabouts, and it stuck:
Cracked
09B9085A…Sadly, winzip stopped accepting that as a valid reg key some time in the 2000’s.
Lol, just reminded me about win XP CD key. Not 100% sure it’s still accurate but:
fckgw rhqq2 yxrkt 2b7q8 8tg6w
Edit: aww, I fucked up the ordering of the last two
The 7 names of the antique greek Muses:
Calliope
Clio
Polyhymnia
Euterpe
Terpsichore
Erato
Melpomene
Thalia
UraniaMorse code. Did a science project back in middle school with wires, buzzers and tappers on a board. Then I taught it to my boy scout troop for a badge. Then lost some of it before joining the army in communications (as well as a ton of other outdated means of communication) and then in Iraq, me and another commo guy wired up our rooms for it so we could talk shit about our leadership even if they were in the room. Anyways, after working with it that many times over a stretched out time frame, I’ll never forget that. Or the phonetic alphabet.
It’s not exactly obsolete. The HAMs use it from time to time.
Adjusting a carburetor.
I was never really good at it, I never actually went through with selling my soul to Satan to gain true knowledge of that black art.
Morrowind on the original Xbox came with cheat codes. Put the cursor over the health, magicka, or fatigue bar, enter the codes with the black and white buttons then hold A until the bar fills. If you close the menu before you let go of A, it will continue to refill constantly until you open your menu again.
Health: B, W, B, B, B, A
Magicka: B, W, W, B, W, A
Fatigue: B, B, W, W, B, A
You could actually use the magicka code for all 3, but I liked that there were 3 different codes.
6922251 x 8 = 55378008
Is this obselete? Did multiplication and boobies disappear?
I hope not but I assume the opportunities to bust this trick out in math class has been mostly diminished or forgotten about
down, right, left, right, square, circle, square, triangle, circle, square, right, left
The level select code for Abe’s Oddysee on the PSX. The last time I actually used this code was probably some time around 2002, maybe even earlier.
Damn that’s some nostalgia. I can almost remember the invincibility code from Abe’s Exodus, but not quite.
Iddqd
Rosebud
I know way too much about the propagation of plasma in fluorescent lighting. When you first hit a fluorescent tube with high voltage you need some cosmic radiation to rip off the first barium ion off the cathode which causes a tiny little lightning strike of plasma that skitters across the inner surface of the tube. Once it makes its way across the length of the tube to the anode you now have a conductive path. This path then grows tremendously until it envelopes the whole cross section starting from the anode and works it’s way back to the cathode until the whole tube is filled with wonderful plasma that makes light when it excites the phosphor coating.
That’s kina beautiful. Thank you.
3.14159265359 (ok the last 9 is actually an 8 but it’s followed by a 9 so I round up).
Not exactly obsolete, but there’s no reason for anyone to memorize that many digits of Pi except for trivia. Number of times it has come up in trivia: 0.
If you put as your name grm3110 in NBA jam you can play as death
Boolprop testingcheatsenabled true/false
Testingcheatsenabled true
And finally testingcheats true
The entire shortening of the Sims cheat codes.
Also motherlode.
