Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog » easter egg http://www.imamuseum.org/blog The IMA blog is a space to discuss everything related to the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:51:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Art of the Easter Egg http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/2009/01/27/the-art-of-the-easter-egg/ http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/2009/01/27/the-art-of-the-easter-egg/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:22:51 +0000 Charlie http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/?p=2926 I’m a software developer, so obviously I am talking about the ancient practice of embedding hidden features into software.  Even the left-brained need a creative outlet of some form.  I thought I would share a few of the software easter eggs that I know and enjoy.

Type 'about:robots' into Mozilla Firefox

Type 'about:robots' into Mozilla Firefox

  • An excerpt of the book of Mozilla.
Type 'about:mozilla' into Mozilla Firefox

Type 'about:mozilla' into Mozilla Firefox

  • Google’s ode to the “bushism“.
Type 'about:internets' into Google Chrome

Type 'about:internets' into Google Chrome

  • A close relative to the easter egg is ASCII art.  Sit back and enjoy the big screen like never before.  In windows, go to “Start” -> “Run” and type in “cmd”.  In the command line type, “telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl” and then hit enter twice.
Type 'telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl' into the Windows Command Prompt

Type 'telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl' into the Windows Command Prompt

Do you have any favorite easter eggs I might have missed?

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