On: Obfuscated Erlang (2012)

[tomsmeding]

Just for the reference of us brats that don't know what "the eeee thing" was, could you please enlighten us?

[sigwinch28 → tomsmeding]

It's a GitHub repository with a name consisting of 132 'e's, the maximum limit on GitHub [0][1].

People started contributing more and more esoteric code to print 'e' repeatedly in their favourite programming language. Eventually the repository was disabled, and the author got into a long-winded discussion with GitHub. Eventually the repository was archived [2].

[0]: https://github.com/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee/eeeeeeee...

[1]: https://linuxwit.ch/blog/2018/12/e98e/

[2]: https://linuxwit.ch/blog/2018/12/everything-that-lives-is-de...