5 Legendary Bugs That Later Became Features!

Presenting a bug in your code as a feature is something that almost every programmer has done in their life, but some had really made it big time! Here we present to you 5 legendary bugs that later became key feature of the products!

1. Busty Lara Croft

Lara Croft's bustiness in Tomb Raider was originally an error. This is the story:

“While making test adjustments to her girlish figure, a slip of his mouse turned an intended 50 per cent increase to her breast size into a 150 per cent gain. It met with instant approval from the team before he could correct it.” Original source

2. Hiding files with dot in Unix Linux

So you know about the awesome feature of Linux and UNIX where you can hide your files simply by adding dot before the file name. Well yes, this was originally a mistake in Unix, which wasn't fixed later.

3. Undo mail in Gmail

Gmail's original bug of 5 second delay in sending mails was turned into undo mail feature. Original Source

4. Editing Myspace profile

The ability to edit the html/css of Myspace profiles started as a bug, although it later turned into the strength of Myspace.

5. Taxi Jump in Crazy Taxi

A bug in the original Crazy Taxi allowed the players to jump their cars with with a gear changing technique. While only religious player knew this trick to jump parts of the level and shorten their routes, it was introduced as a full fledged feature in Crazy Taxi 2.