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Ask YC: Easter eggs for web apps?

#1
It seems pretty rare for web apps to have easter eggs. Why is that? It felt a lot more common in desktop development than on webapps.

Am I just overlooking them? Or do they change more often once someone finds them?

Are you putting easter eggs in any of your web apps/sites?

Re: Ask YC: Easter eggs for web apps?

#3
Digg has a couple. If you view source and go to the bottom of the page you'll see:

those constants spell out (of course) digg. Barely an easter egg, but thought I'd throw it in.

There's a key-sequence that mimics a cheat from some game that will expand the comments completely. You can search digg for it if you're curious.

I think that because websites do change more often than desktop environments, people don't look for easter eggs with the same passion. And maybe because the effort involved in building and distributing a website is so much less than building and distributing a desktop application, that makes it more ephemeral, and programmers less likely to put in the time to build elaborate hidden functionality.

The constants thing was there for over a year before anyone noticed it.

Re: Ask YC: Easter eggs for web apps?

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Digg has a couple. If you view source and go to the bottom of the page you'll see: those constants spell out (of course) digg. Barely an easter egg, but thought I'd throw it in. There's a key-sequence that mimics a cheat from some game that will expand the comments completely. You can search digg for it if you're curious. I think that because websites do change more often than desktop environments, people don't look…

for the even more curious, the konami code on digg expands all comments on a page.

Re: Ask YC: Easter eggs for web apps?

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post #4
post #3

Digg has a couple. If you view source and go to the bottom of the page you'll see: those constants spell out (of course) digg. Barely an easter egg, but thought I'd throw it in. There's a key-sequence that mimics a cheat from some game that will expand the comments completely. You can search digg for it if you're curious. I think that because websites do change more often than desktop environments, people don't look…

for the even more curious, the konami code on digg expands all comments on a page.

What's the konami code?

Re: Ask YC: Easter eggs for web apps?

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post #4
post #3

Digg has a couple. If you view source and go to the bottom of the page you'll see: those constants spell out (of course) digg. Barely an easter egg, but thought I'd throw it in. There's a key-sequence that mimics a cheat from some game that will expand the comments completely. You can search digg for it if you're curious. I think that because websites do change more often than desktop environments, people don't look…

for the even more curious, the konami code on digg expands all comments on a page.

That's the one I meant in the last part of my post.
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