Welcome to another edition of our Famous Bugs series! In this post, we’ll cover the Google bug that outsmarted one of the smartest companies on the planet. It’s no secret that google.com is the most valuable domain in the world. For one minute in September of 2015, it belonged to one lucky man named Sanmay…
Welcome to another edition of our Famous Bugs series! In this post, we’ll cover the PayPal bug that we really wish happened to us. When Chris Reynolds opened his PayPal e-mail statement for June 2013, he realized something wasn’t right. The Pennsylvania PR executive’s balance blew up to an incomprehensible $92,233,720,368,547,800. For everyone out there…
Welcome to another edition of our Famous Bugs series! In this post, we’ll cover the Facebook bug that we’re (maybe) thankful isn’t an actual feature. If you’re human, you’ve wondered how many people really see your posts on Facebook. Well, thanks to a bug in Facebook’s mobile app last year, for a brief moment of brutal honesty,…
With massive downloads surpassing Tinder and Twitter, it’s as if all hell broke loose when Pokémon Go was unleashed to the public. It literally took seconds to spark the flame of worldwide mayhem, where almost everyone, except me and some rare few, is playing Pokémon Go like there’s no tomorrow. Our office had around 10 Pokemons and I can’t even begin…
Welcome to another edition of our Famous Bugs series! We hope you get a serious laugh out of other people’s pains that came before us. In this post, we’Il explain the fascinating history of the IBM Deep Blue bug. In May of 1997, IBM’s chess-playing computer Deep Blue challenged the World Champion of Chess, Russian…
This YouTube bug is the first in a series of famous bugs — the villains of the developer world — that broke the Internet, or almost did, even if it was for only a few seconds. When YouTube was first launched, nobody, not even the YouTube guys, thought a video would ever be watched two billion times. To…