Remember the Windows 95 copying files animation?

A colleague and I were sitting waiting for a shit ton of files for the project we were working on to be copied to a backup folder when our (pretty computer-clueless) boss wandered up behind us and said: “Playing a game on company time?”

But then we all also wrote scripts which printed meaningless computer gibberish to the screen so we could take a bit of time out and relax - if he ever showed up we’d be allL “It’s compiling” or “It’s recalibrating the main drive” or “It’s defragging the video ROM”.