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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*This joke was also present on Bungie.net's ''[[Myth]]'' metaserver.{{Ref/Reuse|HBO eggs}} | *This joke was also present on Bungie.net's ''[[Myth]]'' metaserver.{{Ref/Reuse|HBO eggs}} | ||
*The Easter egg is similar to the [[Wikipedia:fortune (Unix)|fortune]] command found on most [[Wikipedia:Unix|Unix]]-compatible operating systems. Like the fortune command in Unix, the ''Halo: Combat Evolved'' egg draws a random quote from a database, albeit much smaller than the lists accompanying most fortune implementations.{{Ref/Reuse|HBO eggs}} | *The Easter egg is similar to the [[Wikipedia:fortune (Unix)|fortune]] command found on most [[Wikipedia:Unix|Unix]]-compatible operating systems. Like the fortune command in Unix, the ''Halo: Combat Evolved'' egg draws a random quote from a database, albeit much smaller in size than the lists accompanying most fortune implementations.{{Ref/Reuse|HBO eggs}} | ||
*"My modem is on fire" is the Myth / Myth2 username of the developer who inserted the .fortune | *"My modem is on fire" is the Myth / Myth2 username of the developer who inserted the .fortune easter egg into the Myth game servers, and subsequently Halo. [https://www.macobserver.com/mwc99/dynamic/teams/bmf/modem.html MWC '99] | ||
==Sources== | ==Sources== |