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I was watching old-school music videos on TV, and saw a video I had never seen before. Which is peculiar in itself given the scandalous amounts of hours I watched MTV in the 90s. The video was Let's Get Rocked by Def Leppard. The video features some very early CGI: I only watched it briefly but then, I saw some computercode flash by. Interesting! This was most definitely C-code, with printf statements all-over the place. And I spotted a pointer. I went to YouTube, scanned the video and screenshotted it here. What is this code? Where is this from? Is there a reason for this code to be in this video? Many questions! My next move was Wikipedia. Wikipedia states: The song was accompanied by a then state-of-the-art computer-animated music video directed by Steve Barron. The video consists of the band playing in a computer generated stadium on top of an LED lit stage in the shape of the flag of the United Kingdom, along with CGI animated scenes featuring a character named Flynn. Flynn is…

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