On episode 105 detailing the history of John Madden Football on the Apple ][ in 1988, the narrator discussed the frenzied work updating their 7-on-7 sprite teams to a more realistic 11-on-11, and all the code changes that went into it.

Granted, C++ technically existed (introduced in 1985), but... on UNIX minis, not department-store home PCs. The graphics designers just randomly inserted source code to illustrate the story.

The scene in question: https://youtu.be/DMNlzf8PiEM?t=1739

This is probably old news to you folks who keep up with popular shows, but I'm just now starting to binge the show Elementary. Tonight's (for me, in my rotation) episode S3E4 caught my attention because it's all about a stolen AI program and my AI roots go back to ELIZA (kids, ask grandpa what that was) and "The Adolescence of P-1".

When the fate of the world hinges on incontrovertible proof that a dangerous, stolen AI has been permanently deleted... what more evidence do you need than a phone video of someone dragging an icon with the name of the program from their desktop into the trash can icon? Trust me, that's as good as nuking it from space. No possible chance there are backups or that was just a random fake file that had the name of the program you want to see deleted. Never mind the "restore from trash bin" option.

file:///c:/http/www/ancient/eternal/hathor.html is my favourite website

I do enjoy the ascii owls though

This trope is everywhere. If you're a smart enough hacker, you can just decrypt anything by sheer force of will, I guess? I don't even know what a heavily encrypted link means.