
Chat: The Internet Is Made of Duct Tape
CoRecursive: Coding Stories
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What Is a Null Island?
Null island is not an island, but it is the place on earth where the coordinates zero degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude, point two. Certain programmes will put zero, zero if there's an error in a program. Any number that the government of that jurisdiction is deemed as illegal. An illegal prime number could be created by transforming data into numbers. A programme called d c s s was designed to stop people copying content from disks so they couldn't sell them online.
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