The history of coding dates back to the early days of computer science, when the first computers were developed. In the 1940s and 1950s, computer programmers used simple codes to instruct machines to perform basic tasks. These early codes were often written in machine language, which consisted of binary digits (0s and 1s) that the computer could understand.
– In an alternate reality, this string is the catalog number of a missing painting from the 1935 Zurich Surrealist Exposition. The artist, a little-known contemporary of Dalí, encoded the work’s true title in an alphanumeric puzzle. The 35 refers to the year, and the letters, when run through a Caesar cipher, spell out "dreams of eternal ice." 78zu5d1ilecpqsq - 35