Simon Whiteley, the film's designer behind the code, reportedly scanned the characters from his wife's Japanese cookbooks to ...

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?

revealed that he scanned characters from his wife's Japanese cookbooks to create the now-famous digital rain. The text is actually a combination of Japanese katakana, numbers, and letters. What was ...