Tag: Easter egg

April Fools Easter Eggs

Traditionally, today is a great day for the creative departments of some otherwise staid websites to let their hair down by way of an Internet prank.

Continuing with the Easter egg theme (and celebrate the Greeks, who, allegorically, dropped the original Easter egg on an unsuspecting city of Troy), I present Air BnB’s Bronze Era Rentals page. Click fast; traditionally these pages don’t live long.

airBnB

Also, for an infopic on some other classic hoaxes (e.g., Burger King’s left-handed sandwich wrapper) follow this link to the Quartz article.

Google Chrome Easter Eggs

Who doesn’t love Easter Eggs! 

No, not the Springtime ovo-cuniculus  variety (although they are good too). I am talking about those purposeless treats that programmers embed into applications, hoping that someone will come across it.

This is done less and less nowadays (probably because software firms assessed  how much time was being billed as ‘work time’ for a pointless feature. I still remember back in the when you could run a virtual Flight simulator from your desk by pressing a series of keys (google “Excel 97 Flight Simulator” for more on that).

Here are some ‘secret’ tricks for you Google Chrome users

In Chrome, enter any of the below into the search bar:

  • Type ‘do a barrel roll‘ then press Enter
  • Type ‘askew‘ (or Type ‘tilt‘ in the search bar and then press Enter)
  • Type ‘google in 1998‘ and press Enter (if you’re feeling nostalgic)
  • Type ‘google sphere‘ in the search bar and then CLICK  ‘ I’m Feeling Lucky ‘  (trippy!)
    GoogleSphere

And finally (although this is not really an Easter egg, but):

  • Hover your mouse over the ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ button’ 

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Cheers!

hɔuᴉnb

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