posted 07-10-2016 12:32 PM               

This source code has been transcribed or otherwise adapted from digitized images of a hardcopy from the MIT Museum. The digitization was performed by Paul Fjeld, and arranged for by Deborah Douglas of the Museum.

Within hours, coders began dissecting the software, particularly looking at the code comments the AGC’s original programmers had written. In programming, comments are plain-English descriptions of what task is being performed at a given point. But as the always-sharp joke detectives in Reddit's r/ProgrammerHumor section found, many of the comments in the AGC code go beyond boring explanations of the software itself. They’re full of light-hearted jokes and messages, and very 1960s references.

[For example] there's code that appears to instruct an astronaut to “crank the silly thing around."

posted 07-12-2016 04:03 PM               

As enormous and successful as Burkey's project has been, however, the code itself remained somewhat obscure to many of today's software developers. That was until last Thursday (July 7), when former NASA intern Chris Garry uploaded the software in its entirety to GitHub, the code-sharing site where millions of programmers hang out these days.

posted 10-25-2021 10:45 AM               

The entire source code for Apollo 11's flight computer software was recently posted to GitHub, a collaborative platform for developers, and it's filled with tons of hidden Easter eggs including jokes, a Shakespeare quote and a reference to the Black Power movement going on at the time.