How to Find Easter Eggs in Your Software Programs

These Easter eggs aren't the kind you can eat. These are digital signatures hidden in the code that makes your software programs work. There are secret messages, neat animations and other stuff that you can learn how to find.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Internet Access
• Internet Explorer
• Netscape Navigator

1. Visit a search engine such as Yahoo! or Google.
2. Type in the keywords "Easter eggs software programs."
3. Press Enter on your keyboard or click the Search button to submit your query.
4. Click on a site that best suits your interests or needs from the list of search results provided by the search engine.
5. Follow the directions provided by the site to learn and find those Easter eggs.
6. Click the Back button on your Web browser to return to the list of search results and choose another site to explore.

Tips & Warnings

• The Easter Egg Archive (eeggs.com) provides a list of additional categories where you can find Easter eggs, including books, art, music and television.
• Join a discussion group; share the Easter eggs you know about and find out about other ones on both Windows and Macintosh platforms.