YouTube Sends Users on an Easter Egg Hunt for #GeekWeek

So, they just sent out a tweet that said:

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If you’re much of a geek, you recognize that as Hex code.

If you can actually translate, or if you’re like me, you went to http://home.paulschou.net/tools/xlate/ and translated it to get:Image

When you follow the cue and search that in YouTube, you see a gloriously old school UNIX-y YouTube view:

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Well done, Googs. Well done. Learn more about Geek Week here http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/25/youtube-unix-geek-week/

2 comments

  1. jjjanedesu · July 25, 2013

    Reblogged this on Bookmarked by Geek Gone Girly.

  2. MikeBarbre · July 30, 2013

    I am 6 worlds away from being anywhere NEAR understanding this.

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