DuckDuckGo displays a special logo when you search for FreeBSD or OpenBSD

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Post by naturalmovement » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 10:17 PM UTC

DuckDuckGo displays a special logo when you search for FreeBSD or OpenBSD
duckduckgo.com

Re: DuckDuckGo displays a special logo when you search for FreeBSD or OpenBSD

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Post by yndoendo » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 10:42 PM UTC

They also have one for Linux and select distros.

Re: DuckDuckGo displays a special logo when you search for FreeBSD or OpenBSD

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Post by bitwize » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 10:48 PM UTC

This reminds me of Google's don't-be-evil era, in which they would add easter eggs like this: "did you mean Emacs" if you searched for vi/vim and "did you mean Vim" if you searched for Emacs, "do a barrel roll", etc. It's a bit weird to call the internet of the late 2000s/early 2010s the "old internet", as I was already wistful for the 90s internet then, but yeah. Something charmingly old-internet about this.

Re: DuckDuckGo displays a special logo when you search for FreeBSD or OpenBSD

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Post by lIl-IIIl » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 10:54 PM UTC

bitwize wrote: post #3

This reminds me of Google's don't-be-evil era, in which they would add easter eggs like this: "did you mean Emacs" if you searched for vi/vim and "did you mean Vim" if you searched for Emacs, "do a barrel roll", etc. It's a bit weird to call the internet of the late 2000s/early 2010s the "old internet", as I was already wistful for the 90s internet then, but yeah. Something charmingly old-internet about this.

All the Google examples you cite still exist.

Re: DuckDuckGo displays a special logo when you search for FreeBSD or OpenBSD

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Post by bitwize » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 11:49 PM UTC

lIl-IIIl wrote: post #4

bitwize wrote: post #3

This reminds me of Google's don't-be-evil era, in which they would add easter eggs like this: "did you mean Emacs" if you searched for vi/vim and "did you mean Vim" if you searched for Emacs, "do a barrel roll", etc. It's a bit weird to call the internet of the late 2000s/early 2010s the "old internet", as I was already wistful for the 90s internet then, but yeah. Something charmingly old-internet about this.

All the Google examples you cite still exist.

They exist, but Google isn't adding new ones (to my knowledge). Still with us, but relics of a more fun time.

Re: DuckDuckGo displays a special logo when you search for FreeBSD or OpenBSD

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Post by digitalPhonix » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 11:49 PM UTC

lIl-IIIl wrote: post #4

bitwize wrote: post #3

This reminds me of Google's don't-be-evil era, in which they would add easter eggs like this: "did you mean Emacs" if you searched for vi/vim and "did you mean Vim" if you searched for Emacs, "do a barrel roll", etc. It's a bit weird to call the internet of the late 2000s/early 2010s the "old internet", as I was already wistful for the 90s internet then, but yeah. Something charmingly old-internet about this.

All the Google examples you cite still exist.

But no new easter eggs (that I'm aware of). I think those easter eggs could only have been created in the 2000s Google culture.

The fact that they're still around doesn't really say anything about the current culture (but the lack of new ones does, somewhat).

Re: DuckDuckGo displays a special logo when you search for FreeBSD or OpenBSD

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Post by wormpilled » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 12:22 AM UTC

digitalPhonix wrote: post #6

lIl-IIIl wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All the Google examples you cite still exist.

But no new easter eggs (that I'm aware of). I think those easter eggs could only have been created in the 2000s Google culture. The fact that they're still around doesn't really say anything about the current culture (but the lack of new ones does, somewhat).