The Matrix’s iconic title sequences are made up of falling “digital rain”, which, upon closer inspection, was actually thousands of lines of binary code. Until now, I always assumed this ...

The source of the digital rain was the Japanese recipe book of Simon’s wife. The way the team behind ‘The Matrix’ movie made the audience believe that the green symbols were a complex code ...

That’s what we thought. Introducing Blue Rain — the fire hose that is the BlueSky feed, falling semi-cryptically down your screen in Matrix-style letter droplets. Ahh, isn’t that nice?