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> After enough years, a bug stops being a bug and starts being part of the personality of a piece of software or hardware.

I'd say this qualifies as an Ascended Bug / Ascended Glitch: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AscendedGlitch




A lot of starcraft is like that. One of the developers wrote about how his quick and dirty hack accidentally became an iconic technique (worker drilling): https://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/the-starcraft-path-finding-...




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