Everything was raw. Apple was just a seed.

Everyone was a kid. Bill Gates was still playing with computers.

You could GOTO everywhere. Jensen Huang's parents had just decided to move to the US.

Every time Neural networks were considered a joke — a compute-hungry monster in a world with no GPUs.

A company built a gaming machine with the coolest game ever. They were confident. Proud. The market loved it. Orders came in every day. Success felt inevitable.…except for a shadow.

They started receiving bug reports. Same symptom. Same description. But there was one problem: No one could reproduce it.

Not in the office. Not with the customer's steps. Not even once. Weeks passed. No progress. Meanwhile, more reports kept coming — like the orders. Consistent. Unstoppable.

What's more frustrating than a real bug that vanishes the moment you look at it? Then one day, after wasting yet another full day hunting this "ghost bug," someone took a break. For fun — or desperation — they plotted the customer reports on a map. And suddenly…

Every single report came from the same region. No exceptions. That was the first real clue. A few days later, they found the ghost: In that region, the mains electricity wasn't the same as in their office — different voltage and frequency. And under certain conditions, the machine behaved differently.

So yes… In the ancient world of IT, even the power grid could give you a bug as a "gift" in your game.