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e24 – Easter Eggs

Simple Beep

English - October 10, 2015 16:01 - 48 minutes - 22.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
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In this episode we go on a hunt for some of the hidden "features" of classic Macs. It's a menagerie of iguanas, gerbils, pigs, dogcows, tiny swords, and more!

In this episode we go on a hunt for some of the hidden "features" of classic Macs. It's a menagerie of iguanas, gerbils, pigs, dogcows, tiny swords, and more!

Easter eggs
Adventure - one of the first easter eggs

Current / recent

"Here's to the crazy ones…"
Blue Screen of Death icons
Speech
Siri: 0 ÷ 0

In hardware

original Macintosh signatures
Macintosh SE team photo
Excalibur on the G3 chip

In system software

About the Finder
Silicon valley --> Clarus animation
OS 8.5 pre-release credits
ResEdit Pig Mode
Secret About Box
Breakout
game / credits in System 7.5
game on original iPod
Iguana iguana powersurgius
in Desktop Pictures control panel
in application switcher palette
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Our favorites

Brian's Sound Tool

"bang the rocks together"
Speedtest.net iOS app [App Store link]

swipe down after running test
Gerbils

developers' faces on track
Tweetie 2

pull-to-refresh slot machine

References

Macintosh Garden
long PDF collection of Easter eggs
MacKido