When you’re part of a large team churning out line after line of code in order to build a spreadsheet, word processor or web browser, there’s not that much scope for fun.
You’re just an anonymous cog in a big software machine and no one is ever going to know who you are.
That’s why Easter eggs were born…
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49 Responses
1.2.2009
You mean light simulator.
1.2.2009
there are a lot of light simulators mentioned in this article.
1.2.2009
DON’T BE ALARMED… Those are easter eggs!
1.2.2009
WTFs a light simulator??
1.2.2009
a simulation of light, of course.
1.2.2009
A ray tracer
1.2.2009
and whats a lat area?they seem to have a sticky f key or something
1.2.2009
FLASHLIGHT!
1.2.2009
How is babby formed?how is babby formed?how girl get pragnent?
1.2.2009
wow this really made my day. A nice list of classic and some new easter eggs
1.2.2009
What ever happened to just checking eeggs.com when you want to find easter eggs?I think that pretty much has it all listed. And that site has been around for ages.
1.2.2009
Apparently their keyboards lack "f"
1.2.2009
uck o, its broken.
1.2.2009
I think you’re right… flat is spelled "lat."
1.2.2009
how did "light simulator" get used 4 times… he must have removed the the word "flight" from his spellcheck
1.2.2009
If you use uTorrent, Go to help > about uTorrent, then press the "T" button on your keyboard.You’re welcome.
1.2.2009
is a freakin Tetris!! .. totally FTW!
1.2.2009
It, indeed, is a freakin Tetris.
1.2.2009
TETRIS FTW
1.2.2009
So what’s the google one? the article mentions it, but doesn’t explain it…
1.2.2009
Dunno. Here is one for Google’s calculator: google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&am …
1.2.2009
Another one from Google’s calc: google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&am …
1.2.2009
I don’t understand this one at all.
1.2.2009
It’s not an easter egg, it’s a math precision error.
1.2.2009
What a crappy article. It rambles on about easter eggs, and only half-heartedly describes them, sometimes not even telling you how to get to the eggs themselves. Not even any pictures or screenshots. What the hell?
1.2.2009
agreed I want to know how to play tetris in utorrent. They mention that it’s there, but don’t even explain how to get to it.
1.2.2009
Douglas Adams is in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy..? He died in May of 2001, production did not begin until April of 2004…
1.2.2009
His head appeared as a planet in one scene, and there was a painting of him and his wife somewhere on the ship, I think. There are more references to him in the movie, but I can’t remember where. His nose is in at least one scene, apparently!He also appeared in the TV series a few times back in the eighties.
1.2.2009
at the end of the movie, as the ship is turning into random things one of those is adams face.
1.2.2009
tl;dr
1.2.2009
Car game in excel 2000 was pretty kool at school.
1.2.2009
kool was pretty cool in school too
1.2.2009
Personally, I type "kool" pretty often just because K is so much closer to O and L on a qwerty keyboard.(I purposely avoid it here on digg because I know people will bitch about it.)
1.2.2009
Thank you for this exciting discovery! I feel like I am immune to cancer already.
1.2.2009
The Easter Bunny’s going tech on us, eh?
1.2.2009
After writing 30K lines of code I can see the lure in writing in a few Easter eggs for a bit of fun.Here’s one for the catalyst-hax.com multihacksIn COD4 or COD5 hit Del in game and type hackscan 1 in the console and it will show you everyone who’s hacking. Great for hunting down cheaters
1.2.2009
I LIKE EGGS.
1.2.2009
Babyspam submits yet more worthless crap.Please ***** stop.
1.2.2009
Buried for misleading title. Not even one example listed to let you ‘discover’ easter eggs.
1.2.2009
Should have just linked to eeggs and saved a lot of writing.
1.2.2009
Hi,Sorry about the ‘light simulator’ typo. This article was copy and pasted from a PDF from one of our sister publications, and there’s a strange bug that leaves out the ‘f’ when there’s an ‘f’ and ‘l’ together. That doesn’t excuse it, but hopefully it explains it. We’re looking into it, and have corrected the article.Apologies for that.Cheers,NickEditor in chief
1.2.2009
Ligatures.
1.2.2009
Yay! Easter eggs! Just in time for Christmas.
1.2.2009
1.2.2009
I tried webDOMinator and it made me feel like a piece of *****!
1.2.2009
I thought digg was all about lists and bullet points. wth is this reading paragraphs to get information?! unacceptable. hahaha i kid.
1.2.2009
I put an Easter Egg on a system I wrote for the U of Mich hospital back in the 80’s. If you logged in near midnight i drew a champange glass with bubbles. All on a PDP-11 with dumb terminals.I wonder if anyone noticed.
1.2.2009
I burned a backup CD for a website I designed for a company, and buried something like 10 folders deep was a standalone slot machine I made in college. I doubt anyone’s ever seen it – though I imagine if they had to reupload the website, they’d just reload the contents of the CD onto the net. I guess the exe file would reside on their server somewhere.