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Easter Eggs
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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 22:59:11 -0400
From: Lucky Green <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Netscape "random" number seed generator code available
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Jim
Gillogly) wrote:
>I'm nervous enough about all the Easter Eggs that have been reported in
>Netscape, like the secret keystroke shortcut to get to Fishcam, or the
>different behavior it exhibits when it finds a certain obscurely-named
>directory at the top level.
Would you please elaborate?
Personally, I like the Easter Eggs in Netscape and other software
products. I don't know if there's an consensus definition of `Easter
Egg', but my working definition is something like ``An unpublicized,
unharmful, preferably amusing, feature for which interested users may
hunt.'' I think that such things add some fun for curious users and
indicate a bit of `hacker spirit' in the development team -- meaning
`hacker' in the classic sense, not the media-bastardize synonym of
`cracker'. I also think that in Netscape their existance is an
indication that the managment at Netscape is a bit less uptight than
management at some other places.
I didn't know about the FishCam Easter Egg, but I know that Netscape
has a couple of Easter Eggs related to the activity indicator in the
top right of the display. Typically this is the Big N logo with
animated meteors, etc. flying by when the window is active. One
Easter Egg temporarily turns this into a compass which spins to
indicate activity. Another causes the animation to show a dragon
(Mozilla) breathing fire for the remainder of the session. I won't
spoil your fun by telling how to find them.
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