Unlocking Sheng Long in Street Fighter 2.
Long before the Internet existed anything outside of university research, people had to read magazines for gaming information. Games like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat didn’t come with any instructions, so things like special moves and fatalities were unknown until discovered. We used to travel to different arcades and ask people what moves they had heard about/knew from experimentation.
Electronic Gaming Monthly came out with a guide on unlocking a secret character in Street Fighter 2 which had an insane level of difficult circumstances. Everyone was going nuts trying to unlock this character, the conditions were so difficult and so it was hard to prove whether they were met or not.
Turns out it was their first April Fools joke and the whole video game world was duped. By far the most difficult puzzle in a video game is trying to unlock something that isn’t there!
I work in IT so getting a working copy of Windows Server edition isn’t a problem. For a long time I ran my house on Windows Server - the big draw was that I could RDP to a desktop at home very easily. The downside is the constant updates, programs stepping on each other, having one app go bad and take the rest with it, constant need to reboot, etc. Plus when you run Windows server there’s a lot of stuff they turn off in the name of stability and some programs will flat-out refuse to install on a Server edition software. Meanwhile the desktop edition has limits on processor cores, RAM etc.
During one of my machine refresh/promotion cycles I took a chance on an Ubuntu server, which was able to do everything I needed. Used DockStarter to help me learn/understand Docker. Once I got the hang of that my newest home server is now a Proxmox hypervisor with HBA passthrough to run TrueNAS in a virtual machine, along with multiple windows and Ubuntu virtual machines, some of which are docker nodes (now that I understand Docker better I am able to handle the config on my own) and some stuff I use for work and simulation. I don’t have any desire to run a vanilla windows server anymore.