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I'm thinking stackoverflow.com llc / inc should buy a brick in the Computer History Museum Wall.

It's for a noble cause -- the CHM is one of my favorite places on the planet, and the money is a non-profit donation in support of their effort to record the history of the computer.

The brick I am looking at is the Terabyte:

The wall will consist of a series of permanent high-tech plaques engraved with your message. Honor your favorite computer pioneer, recall your first technology project, or annotate any technology memory you wish to commemorate in this special area. Each engraved wall plaque will be placed in the newly remodeled entry area of the Museum, ensuring that your reminiscences will be preserved and shared for years to come.

  • Name: Terabyte
  • Price: $5000
  • Description: 8" x 8" Plaque
  • Max Lines of Text: 6
  • Max Characters per Line: 18
  • Company logo or Stock Symbol available

So, then, the question: what should our CHM plaque say?

Completed, selection made public, and payment confirmed with the Museum: Our Brick in the Computer History Museum Wall. Now we wait for October to see it live!

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    If you can put the APL character set on a brick, I bet you could reimplement SO in APL and it'd fit on that brick....
    – Earlz
    Commented Apr 17, 2010 at 3:29
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    Have you verified that both the 108 characters and the logo can be accommodated? Or will someone need to do a graphic that includes the logo and some text (then the character limit may be different - higher or lower - depending on the resolution of the engraving technology)? Is there additional cost for the logo?
    – Dennis Williamson
    Commented Apr 17, 2010 at 11:13
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    I think the museum should donate this brick to you because 17,210 meta users are going to visit the museum just to see this brick.
    – Robert Cartaino
    Commented Apr 17, 2010 at 18:13
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    I took me five answers to realize that the first row of numbers were only coordinates, not actual text for the brick.
    – Daniel Daranas
    Commented Apr 17, 2010 at 23:05
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    I can think of one company that would be so much happier if their brick could hold seven lines of 20 characters.
    – Dennis Williamson
    Commented Apr 17, 2010 at 23:29
  • @Dennis - and that would be... ?
    – uɐɯsO uɐɥʇɐN
    Commented Apr 19, 2010 at 0:19
  • It might be just me, but it feels kinda like buying your own hand print tile at the walk of fame.
    – Toad
    Commented Apr 19, 2010 at 6:11
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    @George: If you do the math, the result might have a familiar ring to it.
    – Dennis Williamson
    Commented Apr 19, 2010 at 6:14
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    I really can't read a question with the words "brick in the (...) wall" without having that same song stuck in my head for the rest of the day.
    – Gnoupi
    Commented Apr 19, 2010 at 14:15
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    @Dennis - ah. I get it now. :)
    – uɐɯsO uɐɥʇɐN
    Commented Apr 19, 2010 at 17:14
  • The museum doesn't twit
    – SztupY
    Commented Apr 20, 2010 at 18:56
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    Whatever the answer, I think it should include the 123456789012345678 numbers on it.. even if we lose a column and a row. And it must be monospaced font.
    – glasnt
    Commented Apr 20, 2010 at 22:49
  • Why nobody ever thought of Bricky Tables? '); DROP TABLE bricks;-- (in two lines, obviously). Oh I see, historical incongruence.
    – Francisco Presencia
    Commented Jan 25, 2014 at 20:13

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  • AFAIK, Comment upvotes give 0 rep.
    – waiwai933
    Commented Apr 20, 2010 at 5:47
  • Oops .... you are right ... thanx :)
    – Rashmi Pandit
    Commented Apr 20, 2010 at 7:19
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  • It's a bit frightening that Plz-send-teh-codez fits perfectly.
    – perbert
    Commented Apr 21, 2010 at 20:00
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Stackoverflow.com

9/10 programmers

agree: It's

teh awesome !!!11

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    PLZ HELP BRICK T3XT NO WORK HELPZZZZ!!111!1
    – Earlz
    Commented Apr 17, 2010 at 4:08
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    Ya... it's pretty bad.
    – uɐɯsO uɐɥʇɐN
    Commented Apr 17, 2010 at 4:49
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    [homework][plz-send-teh-brickz]
    – cobbal
    Commented Apr 17, 2010 at 9:21
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