Friday Noght Trivia - Easter Egg Hunt

[PCSolutions]

Easter eggs are undocumented features of programs. Sometimes they display the developers credits, sometimes other things. Arcane keystrokes or mouse clicks typically trigger them

I thought this week, since it is Easter, that we all might try to have some fun with Easter Eggs. Seemed appropriate.
Im not sure how to do that though

My ultimate favorite was the Easter Egg in Excel 95. The DOOM like almost impossible game was great fun! I never could make it into the Hall of Mirrors

Most Easter Eggs are pretty well documented these days but some are still really arcane and obscure. I guess I would just like to see everyones favorite Easter Egg. Please substantiate that somehow

Also, I have always wondered why the documented Easter Egg for Windows 95 does not work with versions B or C. It only works with the original release and version A. Anyone know why?

Go hunting and lets see what everyone can do with this.

Max by far has grandeouise kudos for the hardest trivia question ever last week. That Windows flag one was TOUGH!!


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[maxximilian]

Thanks PCS. Actually I'm still working on a definitive answer for the logo question, but I've moved it to a back burner for the time being.

My system has been real shaky today. Three blue screens and some strange activety in my browser. Anyway, as part of trying to fix things, I was using RegCleaner, which as luck would have it, has an Easter Egg. If you got this program, here is the instructions to see it.

http://www.eeggs.com/items/21612.html

If you keep doing it, you get something different each time.

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[greengoose1]

I can't document my first Easter egg since I digested it and many subsequent ones. But here is an interesting history I found.

The History of Easter Eggs


The Decorated Easter Egg
The egg is nature's perfect package. It has, during the span of history, represented mystery, magic, medicine, food and omen. It is the universal symbol of Easter celebrations throughout the world and has been dyed, painted, adorned and embellished in the celebration of its special symbolism.

Before the egg became closely entwined with the Christian Easter, it was honored during many rite-of-Spring festivals. The Romans, Gauls, Chinese, Egyptians and Persians all cherished the egg as a symbol of the universe. From ancient times eggs were dyed, exchanged and shown reverence.


In Pagan times the egg represented the rebirth of the earth. The long, hard winter was over; the earth burst forth and was reborn just as the egg miraculously burst forth with life. The egg, therefore, was believed to have special powers. It was buried un der the foundations of buildings to ward off evil; pregnant young Roman women carried an egg on their persons to foretell the sex of their unborn children; French brides stepped upon an egg before crossing the threshold of their new homes.

With the advent of Chrisianity the symbolism of the egg changed to represent, not nature's rebirth, but the rebirth of man. Christians embraced the egg symbol and likened it to the tomb from which Christ rose.


Old Polish legends blended folklore and Christian beliefs and firmly attached the egg to the Easter celebration. One legend concerns the Virgin Mary. It tells of the time Mary gave eggs to the soldiers at the cross. She entreated them to be less cruel an d she wept. The tears of Mary fell upon the eggs, spotting them with dots of brilliant color.

Another Polish legend tells of when Mary Magdalen went to the sepulchre to anoint the body of Jesus. She had with her a basket of eggs to serve as a repast. When she arrived at the sepulchre and uncovered the eggs, lo, the pure white shells had miraculous ly taken on a rainbow of colors.


Decorating and coloring eggs for Easter was the custom in England during the middle ages. The household accounts of Edward I, for the year 1290, recorded an expenditure of eighteen pence for four hundred and fifty eggs to be gold-leafed and colored for Ea ster gifts.

The most famous decorated Easter eggs were those made by the well-known goldsmith, Peter Carl Faberge. In 1883 the Russian Czar, Alexander, commissioned Faberge to make a special Easter gift for his wife, the Empress Marie.


The first Faberge egg was an egg within an egg. It had an outside shell of platinum and enameled white which opened to reveal a smaller gold egg. The smaller egg, in turn, opened to display a golden chicken and a jeweled replica of the Imperial crown.

This special Faberge egg so delighted the Czarina that the Czar promptly ordered the Faberge firm to design further eggs to be delivered every Easter. In later years Nicholas II, Alexander's son, continued the custom. Fifty-seven eggs were made in all.

Ornamental egg designers believe in the symbolism of the egg and celebrate the egg by decorating it with superb artistry. Some use flowers and leaves from greeting cards, tiny cherubs, jewels and elegant fabrics, braids and trims, to adorn the eggs. They are separated, delicately hinged and glued with epoxy and transparent cement, then wh en completed, they are covered with a glossy resin finish. Although the omens and the mystery of the egg have disappeared today, the symbolism remains, and artists continue in the old world tradition of adorning eggs.


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[greengoose1]

I found a whole lot of eggs, this being but one:

Click here.

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^bumping-it-up^ to get this drowned topic some attention. Hope someone is able to help.

[Vernon Frazee]

> Also, I have always wondered why the documented Easter Egg for Windows 95 does not work with versions B or C. It only works with the original release and version A. Anyone know why?

It works with Windows 95B (OSR2.1) here.

Instructions:[list=1][*]Right-click any blank space on your Desktop, and select New|Folder.
[*]Name the folder:

   and now, the moment you've all been waiting for
[*]Right-click the folder and rename it to:

   we proudly present for your viewing pleasure
[*]Right-click the folder one more time and rename it to:

   The Microsoft Windows 95 Product Team!
[*]That's it. Double-click the folder to open it.[/list=a]
Note: You must type in the folder names exactly as shown (i.e., case-sensitive). If it works correctly, when you open the folder you'll hear a MIDI musical score while names appear on a blue background.

[PCSolutions]

Vern - I thought that the letter "a" in the first sentence should be capitalized. Maybe tht is what I am doing wrong

MSN had this on their wrebsite today
How to find secret Easter eggs--in your computer programs


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