Pointer Pointer

What fun links; it’s comforting to see whimsy is still alive and well online.

I have searched on and off for a similarly fun game as follows:

- the splash screen says "congrats: you've been recognized for outstanding work. Click 'next' to finalize your bonus details with HR."

then when the user moves the mouse to the next button, it evades the pointer so you can never click it.

This joke was play on me when I was consulting at AT&T in the 90s.

There are variations on the setup ... eg. won lotto ... email from wife ... won free car ...

And in a couple cases I've seen the "next button" temporarily change into a Dilbert looking boss with a snide remark before going back on the run.

Never found it again ...

Same here

I was thinking it would be about the old-school handle pattern like in classic Mac OS, where memory allocation APIs returned pointers to pointers so the OS can move things around behind the scenes.

No, that sounds about right.

From my own experience I can confirm that I vastly prefer programming in dome good old C++ when I am drunk.

Vintage Facebook?

Those pictures are way older. I would say early/mid 2000s. Some guy wears a lostprophets shirt which should be based on the 2001 album. They are either first generations of digital cameras or scanned analog if you ask me.