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*This joke was also present on Bungie.net's ''[[Myth]]'' metaserver.<ref name="HBO eggs"/> | *This joke was also present on Bungie.net's ''[[Myth]]'' metaserver.<ref name="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 name="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 name="HBO eggs"/> | ||
*"My modem is on fire" is a reference to a notorious Unix error message "[[Wikipedia:Lp0 on fire|lp0 on fire]]". | |||
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