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Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Easter Egg? (slashdot.org)
One year ago, Easter Sunday was greeted with the news that many companies were increasingly cracking down on "Easter Eggs," like the harmless snippets of vanity code playfully hidden by developers. "As programming becomes more corporate, more official, one cannot appear to have code that is not officially sanctioned," the author of The Elements of Computing Style told the BBC, though other programmers they spoke to disagreed.
The Easter Egg is a tradition which dates back at least to a hidden room in a 1979 Atari game, and I still have fond memories of the Batmobile Easter Egg (video) in King's Quest II (1985) and tales of that weird musical Easter Egg in Windows 95 which scrolled the names of their entire development team.
So share your favorites in the comments. What's your favorite Easter Egg?
The Easter Egg is a tradition which dates back at least to a hidden room in a 1979 Atari game, and I still have fond memories of the Batmobile Easter Egg (video) in King's Quest II (1985) and tales of that weird musical Easter Egg in Windows 95 which scrolled the names of their entire development team.
So share your favorites in the comments. What's your favorite Easter Egg?
My favorite Easter egg is the Hershey's chocolate eggs with the blue foil wrapper.
Seeing as this is Slashdot and there's no Cowboy Easter Egg... I'll have to go with:
sudo apt-get moo
And, because Slashdot eats the text formatting, here's a picture:
http://i.imgur.com/BGXbVxZ.png
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
It was a stupid mind game that DOS let you play when you were stuck because of bad sectors on a floppy. In retrospect, that was a rather bad and unfunny Easter egg!
Try it on a Mac.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
In python2.7 interactive mode:
>>> from __future__ import braces
File "", line 1
SyntaxError: not a chance
It has been a long time since I have fallen for a Goatse Troll, congrats! Sadly it looks like the site has been taken down. I wonder how many hits that page got, that's a very large opening to fill!
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
# aptitude moo
/ \
There are no Easter Eggs in this program.
# aptitude -v moo
There really are no Easter Eggs in this program.
# aptitude -vv moo
Didn't I already tell you that there are no Easter Eggs in this program?
# aptitude -vvv moo
Stop it!
# aptitude -vvvv moo
Okay, okay, if I give you an Easter Egg, will you go away?
# aptitude -vvvvv moo
All right, you win.
/----\
-------/ \
/ |
-----------------/ --------\
# aptitude -vvvvvv moo
What is it? It's an elephant being eaten by a snake, of course.
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
Which is probably a rip off of something else, somewhere down the line - until you find that we're still cracking the same jokes as Plato and our graffiti has been the same thing for thousands of years.
Remember, you're unique - just like everybody else.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."