anyone recognise xyzzy and why?

anyone recognise xyzzy and why?

Plugh!

It is a password used contained by the old Adventure certificate game.

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WHY? Why not?
The occupancy 'XYZZY' from the Crowther and Woods Adventure game

"...If you use guessable [passwords] close to XYZZY... my 12-year-old daughter could be reading your messages inside a day." — Martin Heller, Windows Magazine, July 1, 1994. have propagated widely throughout both academia and the computing community. This nonsensical string of consonants is still a part of the vocabulary of copious who participated contained by computing's earliest days.



You find mentions of it everywhere. 'XYZZY' (along with other phrases from the activity such as "...you are in a twisty tangle of passageways, all alike") can be found within computer documentation, classroom discussions, and in copious other surprising contexts.
yes it my name i hear i everyday. Why?? because my mother name me that ok!!
it is a file extention for Microsoft Visual Studio 8
xyzzy is also a cheat used within Minesweeper.



By typing this a pixel in the corner of the application will make over between black and white depending on whether or not you are over a mine.