Google held its Google I/O developer conference yesterday, where it announced its Open App Engine to eager developers. As a take home, Google distributed Google IO t-shirts to those who attended the conference.
The witty t-shirt was supposed to spell out Google IO in binary, but there seems to be a misprint on the shirt, spelling out Google KO.
Randy at ZDSystems was the first to figure this blunder out and blog about it :
Here is my translation of the shirt to binary:
01000111
01001111
01001111
01000111
01001100
01000101
01001011
01001111Here is what that is translated:
GOOGLEKO
Pretty funny blunder on behalf of some Google intern who has to study up on binary. RDRR.
Hmmm, I wonder what they where trying to spell. With 8 bits they should have just filled it with zeros.
Maybe a blunder, or perhaps bloggers have fallen for a nice marketing stunt. We all know how people love to point out a mistake, nice bit of publicity ;)!
I think they were trying to say that Google Knocks Out (the competition)…