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Software => Computer software => Topic started by: Treval on March 28, 2010, 11:17:46 AM

Title: The Easter Egg Thread
Post by: Treval on March 28, 2010, 11:17:46 AM
Somebody care to sticky this, or is it not good enough? =P lol

FireFox:
1. Start FireFox
2. Type:   about:robots
3. Type:  about:mozilla

First one is a robot joke the second one is a joke of mozilla vs ie5.

Title: Re: The Easter Egg Thread
Post by: Azzaboi on March 28, 2010, 11:58:29 AM
 ;D that's funny, from The Book of Mozilla! Good to use as a homepage.
Title: Re: The Easter Egg Thread
Post by: soybean on March 28, 2010, 12:30:20 PM
Did you discover the two hyperlinks in the second one?
Title: Re: The Easter Egg Thread
Post by: Treval on March 28, 2010, 12:32:56 PM
Yes I did.
Title: Re: The Easter Egg Thread
Post by: soybean on March 28, 2010, 12:57:08 PM
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the second one is a joke of mozilla vs ie5.
Where do get that notion?  I see nothing related to ie5 there.  Am I missing something?

Edit: Maybe this should be moved to Off-topic.   ;)
Title: Re: The Easter Egg Thread
Post by: Treval on March 28, 2010, 02:00:55 PM
This is specifically about software easter eggs. It's not OT. =P
Title: Re: The Easter Egg Thread
Post by: soybean on March 28, 2010, 02:04:37 PM
You mean this type of thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg_(media) ??
Title: Re: The Easter Egg Thread
Post by: Treval on March 28, 2010, 02:15:02 PM
Yep, also my on topic is that I only post software EE's. =P
Title: Re: The Easter Egg Thread
Post by: BluerjB on March 30, 2010, 02:32:28 PM
lol the robot one was so random
Title: Re: The Easter Egg Thread
Post by: mat123 on April 01, 2010, 03:23:49 PM
in windows xp set the scrensaver to pipes and click tektures then click cancel and it has a candy cane effect
Title: Re: The Easter Egg Thread
Post by: patio on April 01, 2010, 05:37:59 PM
Quote from: Treval on March 28, 2010, 02:15:02 PM
Yep, also my on topic is that I only post software EE's. =P

Are you saying there are hardware EE's ? ?
Title: Re: The Easter Egg Thread
Post by: Azzaboi on April 01, 2010, 06:51:29 PM
There's lots of hidden Easter Eggs in movies, tv shows, software, music, books, and art. And yes there are even some Hardware and Electronics Easter Eggs too!

For example: Like dialing # numbers of your cellphone to bring up a credit screen, game or service menu, etc. Release codes for old american coke machines. Printers have the creators names listed, etc. Apple iPod has a built-in game in game. Clicksor Keyboards have messages from the creators on the display. DVD Players sometimes have Secret Loopholes menus where you can edit the Region ID as well as other things. Some Macs, consoles, Wacom Tablet, etc, all have easter eggs and the list goes on! I know the Nintendo has them in the Gamecude, Wii, Gameboy, etc. There was even Tetris built-in as an Egg on an Oscilloscope!
Title: Re: The Easter Egg Thread
Post by: BC_Programmer on April 02, 2010, 03:17:15 AM
Every single one of those is a software easter egg.

hardware would mean it's literally circuited that way.

edit: some of the nintendo ones might be that way. But I would still imagine that they are part of the game/system ROM.
Title: Re: The Easter Egg Thread
Post by: Azzaboi on April 02, 2010, 01:20:33 PM
BC_Programmer, I guess your right, those 'hardware' ones would be embedded into the software or ROM.

Take a look at the Easter Eggs on: http://www.eeggs.com

For some others like movies/music, etc.
I like the 'Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd) - Wizard of Oz' Easter Egg, lol.

Happy Easter All!
Title: Re: The Easter Egg Thread
Post by: BC_Programmer on April 02, 2010, 01:36:47 PM
Quote from: Azzaboi on April 02, 2010, 01:20:33 PM
BC_Programmer, I guess your right, those 'hardware' ones would be embedded into the software or ROM.


Older cartridge ones are probably the closest to being purely hardware based, since for the most part they are literally part of the chip... but then again the software is part of the chip too... hard to say.

a hardware based easter egg wouldn't be very fun anyways.
Title: Re: The Easter Egg Thread
Post by: Treval on April 02, 2010, 01:44:26 PM
Do people change 'you're' with 'your' on purpose or what? .. =P
Title: Re: The Easter Egg Thread
Post by: Azzaboi on April 02, 2010, 01:48:37 PM
Nah, that's me just failing my English Exam  :-[ oops lol
Exams are over with I thought, it's the Easter Break for me now!