Dilbert Hiding On Your CPU

Posted by Zonk on Friday October 14, 2005 @12:46PM from the they-need-hobbies dept.

Case_Argentina writes "Interesting article and photos on News.com about a guy who does microscopy photography discovering hidden images in computer chips. The images, made by tiny wires connecting the deeper layers of the chip, were left there by engineers leaving messages to competitors, or just having plain fun. Snoopy, Daffy Duck, Dilbert, Dogbert and lots of silicon characters and images can be seen at The Silicon Zoo." Update: 10/15 06:27 GMT by Z : As some readers have pointed out, if history serves you can look forward to reading about this again in 2007.

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A new record? by Seehund · 2005-10-14 12:54 · Score: 4, Informative

More than 10 years ago, Michael Davidson went looking to capture the beauty of microchip circuitry in photographs.

And here I was thinking this Slashdot story from exactly 2 years ago was a bit late...

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1. Re:A new record? by Seehund · 2005-10-14 12:57 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  Yeah, I thought the one from 1998 felt a bit dated too.
  
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Re:A very cool site, but it's been around for a wh by rob_squared · 2005-10-14 15:00 · Score: 4, Informative

Unfortunately, it's a hoax:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blsux.htm

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