WEBVTT - Favorite Easter Eggs 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.880 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:08.920 It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology? With 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:17.960 tech Stuff from how stuff works dot com. Hello there, everyone, 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:20.520 and welcome to tech stuff. My name is Chris Polette, 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:22.520 and I am the tech editor here at how stuff 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:25.840 works dot Com. Sitting across from me, as he always does, 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:30.320 is senior writer Jonathan Strickland. Hey there, So today we're 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:36.680 not tackling anything particularly no delicate in terms of technology, 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:39.680 nothing that we needed to do a lot of research on. Instead, 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:42.200 we decided to do something a little bit more fun. Yeah, 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:45.320 and this comes to us courtesy of Rich in a 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:51.839 little listener mail. Rich says, Hi, guys, I was wondering 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:54.480 if you had done a podcast covering hidden Easter eggs 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:57.279 and software, video games, et cetera. Couldn't find it if 0:00:57.280 --> 0:00:59.520 you have. The first one I can remember coming into 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.640 personally was in the Atari game Yards Revenge. I also 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:05.360 remember Microsoft Excel having a hidden game when you went 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:07.920 to a certain cell and type something. Anyway, I thought 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:09.399 it would be cool if you guys could cover some 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:13.360 of some with their origins. Thanks Rich, Well, Rich, We're 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:15.559 gonna cover a few of our favorites. We each picked 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:19.360 uhh five, I think and um, because there are hundreds 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:21.360 and hundreds of Easter eggs out there. Yes, and we 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:23.759 should probably start by explaining what an Easter egg is. Well, 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.279 that's a good idea. So Easter eggs are these hidden 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:31.120 little features within something it doesn't It can be software, 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:33.720 it could be hardware, it can be pretty much anything 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:35.600 you can imagine. There are a lot of DVDs of 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:38.080 Easter eggs. In fact, we may do an episode just 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:41.640 about DVD ster eggs in the future. We specifically avoided 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:44.959 them for this episode because they're just they're hundreds of 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:47.680 those as well. But in general, and easter egg is 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:51.520 something that someone connected to a particular project slips in 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:55.800 as a joke, usually an inside joke, some sort of reference, um, 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.600 or sometimes just a treat for people who like to 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:04.880 poke around and explore uh in hardware and software. M Yeah. 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:10.120 Sometimes they're actually condoned by the publisher. The publishing company 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:12.080 knows about it and they say, oh, yeah, you know, 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:14.520 as long as it doesn't interfere with anything, you know, 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:16.640 go ahead and throw that in there. Um. You know, 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.280 some of the very uh, my very favorite ones, my 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:23.680 very very favorite one especially is one that was done 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:28.160 without the knowledge of the publisher, and um it was actually, uh, 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:32.320 sort of a punishment to the publisher for not being 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:37.720 more accepting of including credits. Interesting. So, yeah, this can 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.320 be a way for a programmer to either let off 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:43.160 a little steam or just be silly. I mean when 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:47.000 you're saying they're designing hardware or software. When you're spending 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:50.040 hour after hour in the design process the testing process, 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:52.639 it can really become a grind. And these little things 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:56.520 are kind of ways of expressing your own little personality 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.519 quirk or whatever, and away that's kind of fun and 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:01.639 and other people can enjoy. And if no one ever 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:04.720 finds it, well it's still a joke that you can enjoy. Yeah. 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:07.720 And uh, the reason that they're called easter eggs, well 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:09.720 it may or may not be obvious to you, but 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:11.800 it's sort of like going on a hunt. The idea 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:13.800 is that you will hunt them down and find the 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:18.919 little a little bit of secret joy I guess hidden 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.680 away in the recesses of the program or the the 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:24.880 disk somewhere, and they're not supposed to be impossible to find. 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:27.880 If you're possible to find, then they're not really Easter eggs, 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:29.560 and some of them are really challenging, and some of 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:33.320 them aren't quite so difficult. Like on DVDs, for example, 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:36.119 you may have noticed, while you know, trying to navigate 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:40.240 from one option to another, that you highlighted something that 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:42.480 you didn't think was a choice, and then it turns 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:44.960 out that there's some weird little feature behind it. That's 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.320 a very common easter egg and it's it's not that 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:49.600 difficult to find on most DVDs, assuming that you have 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:53.120 a you know, normal DVD remote control. Yeah, and even 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:56.600 and computer computers, excuse me. In a computer, you can 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.760 often move the mouse around and find little spots that 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:03.360 you and click on that will activate hidden features. And 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:05.640 my in my experience, has been a little easier to 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:09.080 find in a on a computer than it has been 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:12.160 actually using the remote. Yeah. Yeah, some remotes just aren't 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:15.200 as responsive, it seems to that kind of thing. I've 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:17.600 noticed the same sort of issues. So let's go ahead 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:20.240 and get started, Chris, watch you start us off. Well, 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:22.000 I was gonna I was gonna go ahead and start 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:27.320 with my favorite UM. This was an Atari game. UM 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.920 from Back in the Dark Age is actually somewhat literally 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:34.880 game called adventure um, in which you play Okay, you 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:38.359 play a square right. No, literally you're not you know 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:42.919 someone who's uncool. You are a square but but no, 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:46.600 you are an adventurer and you are trying to uh 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:50.000 get the chalice and bring it back. Um. The thing 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.520 is there are three dragons that are out to get you. Um, 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:56.120 and you are supposed to go through the labyrinth and 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.440 get through the castle and defeat the dragons and and win. 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:04.400 It's a pretty simple game. Um. But apparently, from what 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:08.800 I have read, UH, programmer Warren Robinette was not allowed 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:11.640 to put his name on the final product. Apparently it 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:15.200 was Atari's game as far as Atari was concerned. Um. 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:18.120 So what he did, uh he embedded a micro dot 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:22.520 uh inside the wall of of one of the dungeons. 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:25.560 And UM, I won't get into the details. It's it's 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:27.680 kind of complicated how you have to do this. But 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:29.919 there's a bridge that you can pick up and carry. 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:32.520 You're allowed to carry one item with you. How do 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:37.480 you pick it up by running into it? So you yes, well, 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:38.880 I mean this is back in the day where you 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:42.039 had a joystick with one button, um, which you know. 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:45.480 Many of the younger listeners are probably going what really 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:49.680 just one button? Oh, I mean no, most the other 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:52.080 you know, most of them have some kind of joystick, 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:57.240 except it's the current generation doesn't have, you know. Yeah, anyway, anyway, anyway, Um, 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:59.760 you you had to pick up the bridge and ram 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:01.520 it a against this wall and it would allow you 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:04.680 to cross over far enough you're actually move past the 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:07.400 normal line to get into the wall and pick up 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:10.279 this micro dot, which was essentially one pixel. And when 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:13.599 you had this dot, you could cross over this other 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:17.120 wall and see Warren Robinett's name and said created by 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:20.800 Warren Robinett. So he does he got his name in there. 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:22.680 But you had to know, I hadn't know exactly how 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:24.080 to get through there. Yeah, you had to pick up 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:25.520 the bridge and take it with a certain spot and 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:28.360 carry it back. And um, it was a little complicated, 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.240 but not complicated enough to stop lots and lots of 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:33.040 people from seeing it. And I think you know, this 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:36.160 is one of the most well chronicled Easter eggs out there, 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:39.880 although their websites devoted to this, and yeah, they're a 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.680 lot of these will spread viral e once someone disavers them, 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:44.599 they'll they'll tell a couple of people and then it 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.040 before you know it. It seems like it's common knowledge. 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.479 It's kind of funny how fast they can pass through 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:53.440 the entire uh network of folks. Well yeah, I mean 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:55.520 this was before the Internet and lots and lots of 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:57.560 people knew about you know, this game that came out 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:01.400 in the late nineties seventies, so you know, so my 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:05.240 first one is similar in that it refers to a 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:10.760 the classic era of home video gaming. It's the Konami code, 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:13.840 which was first used in a game called Gradius on 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:17.040 then to Know Entertainment System. It was more famously used 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:20.600 in Contra and the code itself you would use your 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:24.800 Nintendo controller and you would put in the sequence using 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:29.160 the controller and go up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:33.520 b A. I guarantee you that some of our listeners 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:36.160 said that with me I started, they probably said it 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:39.640 faster because they just you know, it gets stuck in 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:43.160 your memory. So back in the day, this was a 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.600 cheat code that would allow you to get usually like 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.160 for most games thirty Extra Lives, a lot of different 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:50.800 games use this this code, uh yeah, and a lot 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:53.080 of these games, these early in games, because remember this 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:55.160 is back before you could do things like save your 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:58.760 progress in a game. If you turn the game system off, 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:02.200 you you ended your game. You would have to start 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.360 a new one, so you lost all the progress you 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:08.600 had made. So things like generating extra lives was a 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:10.680 big deal because you know you wanted to try and 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.800 see the end of the game if possible. Um, well, 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.120 you know I wouldn't normally call that an easter egg, right, 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.960 that's a cheat code. So cheat codes and easter eggs, 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:22.040 I'd say, were two different things. However, the people who 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:25.680 are building the software we're using today are the same 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:30.120 people who as kids were playing games like Contra and Gradius, 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:34.520 and they were people who knew the up, up, down, down, left, right, 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:37.280 left right be a code, so they started to build 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:40.840 it into software. Specifically, you find it and a lot 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:44.600 of web pages. There's one web page in particular called 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:48.679 Konami Code Sites dot com. If you go there, you 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:50.839 can actually see a list of all the different sites 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.839 that have this as an easter egg in it. In 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:57.640 order to access Konami Code Sites dot Com, you have 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:01.120 to know the Konami code to do up, up, down, down, left, right, 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:03.840 left right b A and then it'll let you in. Uh. 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:07.480 And among them are sites like Facebook and dig although 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:09.760 I should say that I tried using it on both 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:11.720 of those recently and I couldn't get them to work. 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:13.600 I don't know if it was because I was using Chrome, 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.120 so it may just be that's not supported in that browser. 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:19.240 I haven't tried all the different browsers yet. But in Facebook, 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.120 what it used to do at any rate was create 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:23.440 kind of a lens flare effect and it would go away. 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.319 If you quit out and came back into Facebook, you'd 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:29.120 be fine, But I had this kind of weird fantasy 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:33.560 lens flare effect. Um also Google Reader, which it still 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:35.559 works in Google Reader. If you do it in Google Reader, 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:39.199 the background turns into Ninja's and uh. There are lots 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:40.800 of other websites that use it too, and it just 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:42.640 shows in this way. It shows that a lot of 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:46.439 the people who programmed these websites were big Nintendo Entertainment 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:49.800 System fans back in the day. And I think it's 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.679 a cool little code to keep going. And you never know, 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:54.520 you know, it may be that the website you're on 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:57.920 at any particular time has that code and just by 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:00.240 typing it in some of them, you have to hit 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:03.640 another key after the sequence, like ter or you may 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:07.080 have to click the mouse button. But yeah, there are 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.160 there are several that that use it as a as 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:14.080 a key to get into the Easter Egg. Okay, your turn. UM. 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:18.440 I actually have a couple from my uh days as 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:23.080 a pseudo graphic designer. Um, those that we're talking about 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:27.760 the early two thousand's late nineties when Photoshop three and 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:31.840 four were out, and um, actually there's been a series 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:37.880 of Photoshop releases that have an Easter Egg. UM, but uh, 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:40.839 this is a really simple one actually, UM. And in 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.320 Photoshop four, which is actually the first one I found 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:46.719 out about it. UM, if you hold down alt when 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:50.240 you do about Photoshop, I think it's alt, Um, it 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.920 will bring up a splash screen very much like the 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:57.839 one that that you see when the program actually starts. UM, 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.959 but um instead actually shows you a picture of a 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:04.959 cat and it says big electric cat, which is the 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:08.679 which was the development name for the product. And uh, 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:11.920 you can actually and scroll through the credits and just 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.319 just like you would see the credits you know on 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:17.040 on other versions of the flash screen, but you can 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:20.560 actually make the cat me out using another key combination 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:25.040 or or burp actually and then uh in later versions 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:29.640 Photoshop five. Strange cargo shows a box and you can 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:33.959 actually open the box to see the cat um. But 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.720 it's just one of those cool little things that they 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:39.800 throw in there and obviously supported. You know, Adobe knows 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:42.600 about this, and you know it's not harmful, it's not offensive, 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.080 you know, why not? You know, yeah, it's just kind 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:48.000 of fun, the level of sophisticated humor that your average 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:53.480 software developer has. Moving on. So this one, this one 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.800 is the one that I included mainly because of my 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:01.199 own personal connection to this Easter egg. Okay, uh So, 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:04.600 there's a series of of computer games that came out 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:08.079 in the eighties and nineties called Ultima. All right, I 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:14.040 think you've heard of it. Yeah, uh so Ultimate five 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:18.120 was a game in which you were playing UM, a 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:21.599 hero who returns to a world after many years of 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:24.600 being away from this world to discover that things are 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:27.480 not going so well and it's your job to try 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:30.960 and make things right and you learn lessons along the way. 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:33.600 And uh I got to play this game back when 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:37.439 it was an alpha build, so uh most of the 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:41.320 stuff was complete for the game, like the basic mechanics 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:45.480 UM attacking, defending, you know, your health, that kind of 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:48.160 stuff magic things, but a lot of the other stuff, 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:51.199 like conversations with other characters, hadn't been built out yet, 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:52.439 so you would come up and try and talk to 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:55.240 people and they had nothing to say. One of them 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:58.439 actually specifically would tell you he had nothing to say. 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.160 Most of them just didn't respond at all. Um But 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:03.400 the one who would respond with nothing to say was 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:07.199 obviously a joke written by one of the developers. But 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.200 one thing that was in there was a weird little 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.760 easter egg that one of the developers told me about 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:14.839 while I was there. He just thought it would be 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:17.680 funny to tell me, and it was that within certain 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:20.760 towns they have wishing wells, and if you tried to 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.280 use the wishing well, you would lose one gold coin. 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:25.360 And you could make a wish, and you could wish 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:27.840 for different things, and in some towns something would happen. 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:31.400 In some towns it wouldn't. Most towns, one wish always worked, 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:35.839 which was corvette. If you wish for a corvette, a 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:39.000 horse would appear next to you and you could get 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.560 on the horse, and the horse would increase your movement rate, 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:43.880 so you could get in between towns much more quickly 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:48.920 than you would otherwise. Um, so, just using a gold 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:51.239 coin and a wishing well typing them the word corvette 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.439 and boom horse would appear right next to you. So 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:56.240 I was curious if they would keep this in and uh. 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.040 Richard Garriott, a k Lord British, was very kind enough 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:02.120 to send me a be about to my five. Um. Uh. 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:05.760 He had befriended my dad and he was all around 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.600 great guy. Sent me a copy. And the first thing 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:11.079 I did was, as soon as I was able to 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:12.559 get to a town the head of wishing well, I 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:15.480 used it wish for a corvette and a horse appeared 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:17.760 and I thought that is awesome. I was in on 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:21.240 an easter egg before it even went gold awesome. Yeah, 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:25.960 all right, next, that's very cool. Um. Actually, uh, in 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:28.800 my notes, id you, we were talking about sophistication of 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:33.800 the humor um the if just sorry I should have 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.320 mentioned this before, but if you. Apparently I found this 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:38.480 out as I was doing some research. I just wanted 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:39.960 to make sure that I had a lite name straight 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.320 and things. Apparently, though, if you if you take a 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:46.240 screenshot of the splash screen for a special cargo, which 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:49.120 is photoshop five, uh and open it and photoshop and 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:51.320 hide all the channels, but the blue channel you actually 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:53.760 get to see one of the senior science a picture 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.520 of the senior scientist on the engineering team. That's pretty funny. 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:59.480 That's yes. But the other one. I was going to 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:03.000 mention that a graphic design program is UH Quirk express. Well, 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:06.240 I guess it's actually a page layout program UM. But 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:08.360 this was one of the ones I found by accident. 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:12.440 UM because if you had UH and and one of 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:14.040 the earlier versions of cork I don't know if it's 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.480 still there, but in Quirk three, if you had a 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:20.520 box basically an image box or a text box UM, 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:24.640 and you held down shift option command K, which was 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.400 a variation. I actually did this by accident and said 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:32.000 as a fat fingered key mistake. Normally that would kill 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.560 the box. We did uh. I think option command K, 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:38.160 but if you add a shift instead, somebody's gonna run 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:39.920 in and tell me I'm wrong. Anyway, it's got an 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.320 extra key in it. There was a little alien that 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:45.640 walks out from the side very slowly, just a little make, 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:49.120 makes a little clumpy noises, you know, and then comes 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:51.160 out and zaps the box for you. So instead of 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:54.480 it just disappearing, there's this whole you know, sound effect 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:58.280 gets rid of the box. I found out again in 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:00.960 my research and later ver since a cork if you 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:03.960 if you hit that key combination, the alien comes out. 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:07.560 But if you keep hitting it rapidly, another alien comes out, 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:12.560 and apparently they have a fight. Nice. That's a great 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.040 Easter egg. Yeah, and it's one of those things where 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:18.440 I've always pictured Cork is a very serious company, but 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:22.320 apparently they had a sense of humor enough to include 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:26.360 that in several releases of the program. Well here's one 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:29.440 that also shows, uh, kind of a snarky sense of 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:34.120 humor by a company. That company being Mozilla or actually 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:39.400 that nonprofit group Mozilla, which responsible for the Firefox browser. 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:43.520 If you go to Firefox and type in in the 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:49.600 address bar about colon Mozilla, Uh, this is what you get. 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:51.880 And it kind of is a little dig at a 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:56.040 certain mega corporation that may or may not have the 0:16:56.080 --> 0:17:02.720 world's most popular internet browser. Um Mammon slept, and the 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:06.359 beast reborn spread over the earth, and its numbers grew legion, 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:09.520 and they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops into the 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:12.800 fire with the cunning of foxes, and they built a 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:15.600 new world. In their own image as promised by the 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:19.040 sacred words, and spoke of the beast with their children. 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:22.720 Mamon awoke and lo it was not but a follower. 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:30.320 From the Book of Mozilla, chapter eleven, verse nine, tenth edition. So, um, yeah, 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:34.640 there's some biblical references in there, Mammon being the personification 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:39.399 actually the godlike personification of greed, and specifically greed for money, 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:44.680 which may be a reference to a certain Microsoft UM 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.560 and how Microsoft at the time had been suggesting that 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:49.280 Firefox was kind of a flash in the pan and 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:52.639 totally unstable and you shouldn't use it, And then they 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:55.760 essentially are saying there that um, eventually they're gonna take 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:58.719 over the world and when Microsoft wakes up, it's going 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:01.960 to be too late. Uh. Kind of interesting. I was 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:05.240 very I actually tried this out in Firefight. It wor Yes, 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:09.040 it does work, and it works. So about colon Mozilla 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:11.600 in the Firefox address bar if you want to check 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:15.080 it out. Okay, from my uh, for my last two 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:20.879 I deviated from the UM software model somewhat. Uh. And 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:24.840 I actually own the first one. UM My my very 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:27.760 first computer, as many of you know, was an Amigo 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:32.520 one thousand and UM and Commodore was far from the 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.800 only computer company to have done this. But if you 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:37.800 open up and I haven't actually done this with mine, 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:40.320 I think I was afraid that I mess something up 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:43.159 this in the days before I was familiar with the 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:45.680 guts of a computer. But if you open up and 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:48.720 I still have it, it's just somewhere else. Um. But 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:51.120 if you open up the case and flip over the lid, 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:56.639 you will see, um, the all the signatures of the 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:59.800 people who worked on the Emigo one thousand. Um. It's 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:01.840 a really part of the plastic in the case. So 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:05.639 it's it's pretty cool. Yeah, that's not unusual either. It's 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.040 another one of those easter eggs that has appeared in 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:10.359 other products as well. If you were brave enough to 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:12.119 open it up, you would be able to see it. Now, 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:14.879 in some cases the items that you'd open up were 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:18.480 not easily closable. Again, so it wasn't necessarily something you'd 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:21.320 want to attempt. A lot of tech stuff is like that. Yeah, 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:27.120 you don't want to hear I got it opens popped out. 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:31.080 This one has to do with a programming language. So 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:37.240 if you have the Python Interactive Interpreter, so we're talking 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.520 about the Python programming language. Open up Python Interactive Interpreter 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:45.440 and you type in import anti gravity. It brings you 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:48.439 to an x k c D comic about how simple 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:54.600 the Python programming language is to learn. Yeah, so Python 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:58.480 developers in turn fans of x k c D and 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:02.000 and there's like this uh mutual adoration society going on there. 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:05.800 But that's kind of interesting. Also very odd that you 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:09.800 would type in import anti gravity and that would send 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:12.560 you there. I mean, how how often does one type 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:16.600 that in Python Interactive Interpreter. I can tell you how 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:21.840 often I've done it. Yeah, zero times. Alright, your turn. Um, 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:25.000 the next one. I guess this is my last one, 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:28.240 isn't it? Um? The would involve one of our favorite bands. 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:32.840 They might be Giants, Um, Who's Factory Showroom CD. This 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:35.600 is a little challenging because a lot of bands on 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:38.040 the last track of the CD, they'll just leave some 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:41.119 you know, silence for I don't know some of them 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:43.800 ten fifteen minutes and where No Yankovic did that once 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:46.880 to me and scared the living hell atom. Yeah, because 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:48.840 there was ten or twelve minutes of silence and then 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:52.400 just thirty seconds of him screaming and banging stuff as 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:55.440 loudly as he possibly could. That'll that'll teach you to 0:20:55.520 --> 0:21:00.520 leave the CD player running, especially if you're like, oh boy, 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:02.240 I think I lost at least three years of my 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:06.240 life off of that. Anyway, you were saying, well, this 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:09.000 one actually requires you to back up while you're listening 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:11.680 to the first track to get to the to the 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:14.240 get to the hidden tracks. It's a little bit more challenging. 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:17.320 I've you know, frankly, I know it exists because I've 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:19.040 seen it replicated. I've never been able to get it 0:21:19.119 --> 0:21:20.800 to work. I guess I just the CD players I 0:21:20.880 --> 0:21:24.080 own or are just in it. Yeah, but um no, 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:26.440 it's it's documented. It's well documented as a matter of fact. 0:21:26.520 --> 0:21:29.040 But it's it's pretty cool because you can you actually 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:32.200 play track one and then if you just rewind, theoretically 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:35.800 is supposed to work. Yep, but I think that's very clever. 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:37.240 I don't know how. I don't know how you do that, 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:39.760 how you encode. I mean, I know how to encode 0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:44.320 a CD and audio CD, but over the first couple 0:21:44.359 --> 0:21:46.520