Computer easter eggs

Easter eggs, also known as gang screens or computer eggs, are hidden functions and novelties contained within programs that developers put in for you to find and enjoy. These can consist of anything from pop-up joke screens, animations, to elaborate built in supplement games. Some of these can be quite substantial in scope, whilst most though are quite small.

Eggs in software programs are known to date back to the 1970's when they first appeared in certain Unix command line utilities. When started with a particular command line parameter, the given program would display text greetings or other message. Eggs got bigger and better with the advent of Windows in the 90's, as programmers could display Easter Eggs with pictures and sounds making use of the multimedia capabilities of the windows platform.

Find some nice application easter eggs on this website. Eggs occur on the internet as well. For example: H4x0r Google, Bork Bork Google, Klingon Google and Elmer Fudd Google. Or Ask Jeeves if he's married.