e24 – Easter Eggs

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
• Balloon Help

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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