List of computer science references

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This article attempts to list references specific and common computer science issues. Internet slang in general is not included, unless it has some computer science base.

Season 1

"Space Pilot 3000" (1ACV01)
Episode

  • Bender drinks "Olde Fortran" malt liquor.

"I, Roommate" (1ACV03)
Episode

10 Home.jpg
  • In the apartment Fry and Bender have for a while, a picture on the wall appears with the following BASIC inspired script:
10 HOME
20 SWEET
30 GOTO 10
  • Bender's apartment number is 00100100. This is a binary representation of the ASCII character '$' or 36 in decimal.

"Hell Is Other Robots" (1ACV09)
Episode

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  • The marquee at the Church of Robotology has a message in BASIC script:
10 SIN
20 GOTO HELL

Season 2

"The Honking" (2ACV18)
Episode

  • The numbers on the wall 0101100101 the number 357 in binary. But in the mirror we see 1010011010, which is 666.
  • The painting with moving eyes is of Commodore LXIV, a reference to the Commodore 64 computers.
  • Tandy's shirt "Euro TRaSh-80" is in reference to the TRS-80 known by users as the Trash-80.
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