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Easter Eggs in Web Sites?

Posted by Cliff on from the ctrl-shift-alt-click-"Pi" dept.

cwikla asks: "Back in the .COM days, I worked at eGroups, now owned by a larger Company. During my time I added a couple of easter eggs to the site, which I was reminded of while watching Being John Malkovich this weekend. I checked, and ones sort of still there. If you append malkovich=1 to a message URL it would turn the message into 'malkovich' mode. It sort of still works, but over time I guess the code has been a changin' so it's kind of spotty. Oh, there are others that still are in there, but where's the fun of telling all the secrets? Any other folks done anything equivalent, especially on mainstream sites?"

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  1. EEGGS.COM by webword · · Score: 5, Informative

    1. Eeggs.com is good site for Easter Eggs in general.

    2. You'll find a few web sites with Easter Eggs here.

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  2. Re:Get the word out! by hyyx · · Score: 4, Informative
    Actually, DON'T go there and post your eggs. Hopefully others will NOT follow. Let me explain...

    I think this site is the most inaccurate, stupid, and mismanaged conglomerations of crap out there. Sure, there are a lot of cool and verifiable eggs on site that you will not find anywhere else, but if you actually take a minute to sit down and look closely at the content, you will see that it is often inaccurate and incomplete.

    The site maintainers need to set up a system that is more rigid and structured for defining what an egg is and in what manner it gets posted. If you look at most eggs, they are lacking in many important details, such as:

    What the egg is.

    Exactly how to reproduce the egg.

    What hardware/software versions does it work on?

    Many of the eggs on the site are simply not eggs. Read the comments in the following egg to see how many people show the egg to be false, but yet the non-egg continue to stay posted:

    http://www.eeggs.com/items/16200.html

    The webmaster even admits it for this one:

    http://www.eeggs.com/items/22634.html

    Here is the same exact egg, listed twice (also try reading the comments for some highly intellectual discussion):

    http://www.eeggs.com/tree/1243.html

    I think the site sucks, because it doing a less than half-ass job. It's not worth doing if you're not going to at least _try_ to do it right.

  3. Re:my favorite easter egg by jamie · · Score: 4, Informative
    You mean /comments.pl!

    (without the leading slash, your link was going to the wrong place on our static .shtml page... we've gotten a ton of 404s in our error log :)

    Oh, and don't forget the other easter egg, /comments.pl?op=user_created_index