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Sort of like a reverse Clippy, which you do find easily and wish you wouldn't. Generally speaking, programs used to have more Easter eggs. I can't recall a single one in the cloud era. The only one remotely whimsical is PostHog.
Fail Whale and other 404 messages were decent examples.
Sort of like a reverse Clippy, which you do find easily and wish you wouldn't. Generally speaking, programs used to have more Easter eggs. I can't recall a single one in the cloud era. The only one remotely whimsical is PostHog.
The problem with Easter Eggs in the web era is that as soon as one person finds it, everyone knows about it. Part of the fun in the boxed software era was that you either had to find it yourself or hear about it from a friend.
That being said, we did have an easter egg on reddit for a long time that very few people noticed. Robots.txt included this:
User-Agent: bender
Disallow: /my_shiny_metal_ass
User-Agent: Gort
Disallow: /earthSort of like a reverse Clippy, which you do find easily and wish you wouldn't. Generally speaking, programs used to have more Easter eggs. I can't recall a single one in the cloud era. The only one remotely whimsical is PostHog.
Sort of like a reverse Clippy, which you do find easily and wish you wouldn't. Generally speaking, programs used to have more Easter eggs. I can't recall a single one in the cloud era. The only one remotely whimsical is PostHog.
> Generally speaking, programs used to have more Easter eggs. I can't recall a single one in the cloud era. The problem with Easter Eggs in the web era is that as soon as one person finds it, everyone knows about it. Part of the fun in the boxed software era was that you either had to find it yourself or hear about it from a friend. That being said, we did have an easter egg on reddit for a long time that very few pe…
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> Generally speaking, programs used to have more Easter eggs. I can't recall a single one in the cloud era. The problem with Easter Eggs in the web era is that as soon as one person finds it, everyone knows about it. Part of the fun in the boxed software era was that you either had to find it yourself or hear about it from a friend. That being said, we did have an easter egg on reddit for a long time that very few pe…
Sometime in the early 2010s there was a link to a livestream of an office fish tank (I think) in the site footer, but I can't find any mention of it online.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8y7bc/what_happe...
I remember reading this years ago and hoped a retro programmer would create a rom patch to implement this functionality. Maybe someday.
This used MrMacHook, IIRC.
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Strictly speaking, it was a two-story building behind the Texaco station: > There was a Texaco gas station at the corner, and a two-story, small, brown, wood paneled office building behind it, the kind that might house some accountants or insurance agents. Apple rented the top floor, which had four little suites split by a corridor, two on a side. Because of the proximity of the gas station and the perch on the secon…
Tymshare! What kind of work did you do for them?
I'm out of time for today, but if you have HN Replies, I will drop you another reply later this week with some details.
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To point 2, even regular user interface can be hazardous: https://www.folklore.org/Do_It.html
Given that (I think?) the "OK/Cancel" dialog of the original Mac is one of those 'foundational' UI conventions that was copied pretty directly by every GUI that came after it, I am very curious if our world wouldn't be full of "Do It" buttons if this episode hadn't taken place. Even the Start Menu could have been called the "Do" menu in that alternate universe.
Sort of like a reverse Clippy, which you do find easily and wish you wouldn't. Generally speaking, programs used to have more Easter eggs. I can't recall a single one in the cloud era. The only one remotely whimsical is PostHog.
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they could’ve implemented it in the 128k rom but I think jobs was gone by then
Imagine the rumors that a remnant of Steve still lived on in the Mac, via some as yet unidentified unremoved OS code.