'Control+Alt+Delete' Was a Mistake

As if the internet community could take any more disappointment after the devastating discovery that Horse_ebooks is not the mystical, prophetic robot we thought it was, Bill Gates has shaterred our illusions once more by revealing that the beloved "Control+Alt+Delete" command was nothing more than a mistake. During a discussion at Harvard over the weekend, Gates confessed that the original IBM PC's designers came up with the shortcut as a way to quickly reboot when the software they were developing would freeze—which happened a lot. "It was like a five-minute job," said David Bradley, who designed the original IBM PC, at last year's 20th anniversary celebration for the IBM PC. "I didn't realize I was going to create a cultural icon."