| easter egg (From the custom of the Easter Egg hunt observed in the US and many parts of Europe) 1. A message hidden in the of a program as a joke, intended to be found by persons disassembling or browsing the code. 2. A message, graphic, sound effect, or other behaviour emitted by a program (or, on an , the ) in response to some undocumented set of commands or keystrokes, intended as a joke or to display program credits. One well-known early Easter egg found in a couple of caused them to respond to the command "make love" with "not war?". Many have much more elaborate eggs hidden in , including lists of the developers' names (e.g. 3.1x), political exhortations and snatches of music. The Color Computer 3 () had images of the entire development team. Microsoft 97 includes a flight simulator! {(http://www.eeggs.com/)}. [] (1999-07-08) |
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