Slack the app might come from a game, but the name (and we are discussing names here) comes from the Church of the Subgenius, which existed in 1994.
There’s a reason there’s another chat app named Discord. Long before His Noodly Appendage ever waved, there was the Church if the Subgenius and Discordianism fighting it out for ridiculous pseudo religion supremacy. Until I lost my wallet around 1998 I was a Real and Genuine Pope, thanks to Project Pan-Pontification. Since then nobody has treated me well.
It wasn't hidden in any real way, but the Atari ST had a easter-egg of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs in their 8x16 font in the box-drawing section. U+250C, U+2510, U+2514 and U+2518. Computing was more fun in the 80's...
There’s a reason there’s another chat app named Discord. Long before His Noodly Appendage ever waved, there was the Church if the Subgenius and Discordianism fighting it out for ridiculous pseudo religion supremacy. Until I lost my wallet around 1998 I was a Real and Genuine Pope, thanks to Project Pan-Pontification. Since then nobody has treated me well.