The History of Windows Easter Eggs - A Retrospective

okay but how the fuck did people manage to find these???

i in VMWARE win 3.1 in second tile get wiedt man but in third i get bear

it's sad that they don't do this any more. It would be fun, and maybe help for marketing purposes when they come out with updates, to encourage people to update to find the easter eggs

some of the methods to get to these easter eggs have real "blinking in morse code" vibes to them like the staff are desperately trying to hide this info from their superiors for fear of death lol

I just now remembered one time where I accidentally activated the candy cane tubes easter egg, I was kinda worried!

when i was like 5 my mom had a xp computer and i had the candycane pipes on it. didn’t know it was an easter egg lol i was just clicking stuff

There is an Easter egg in Windows versions 1.xx and 1.01
It basically shows the developers working on it.
For Windows 1.xx, you press alt, shift, esc and enter.
For Windows 1.01, you press alt and then escape, release alt then escape, press escape twice and then press backspace.

you forgot this easter egg or bug, go to the start button, go to run, type, con\con or c:\con\con and press enter, you will get a bsod. This can only be used in 9x.

Do a retrospective video on Microsoft Agent. You've already did one for one of the programs powered by Microsoft Agent BonziBuddy, and the actual Microsoft Agent software should have it's own as well.

Computers today SUCKS!!!

The 3D Pipes one works even in Windows 10

Got the bear on the first time! (In the Windows 3.1 Easter Egg)

Edit --> Oh my god! I did it again, then the man appeared, and then I did it once more and another man appeared! There is the bear, and 2 different men!

Fun fact: an add on this video Rick rolled me

i dont remember anyone ever calling them easter eggs in the 80s/90s?

The Windows 95 Product Team easter egg also works in Windows 98 if you use 98lite or something similar to change the shell to the Windows 95 version of Explorer.

dont forget the teapots in the 3d pipes screensaver

WINDOWS 95 ANY%

WRAP IT UP

for the last one you don't have to click "choose texture" after you click the texture button, you can just click ok

the word pinball egg doesnt work for me

Yesss @yosell581 @WindowsExpert-WE

y'know. sometimes people even put a easter egg in a kid-friendly game, and add something maybe 18+

quake II has that easter egg with pictures of developers and names under the boss room

Wait MJD must work at Microsoft

What you mean: "Underline" What i mean: "Underscore"

Some people have WAY TOO MUCH time on their hands! 🤣

Microsoft always was peaces ot shit

Ah yes, ENA

windows 95 shows full names
windows 3/3.1 shows new language that was never discoverd

Meanwhile at Apple: This years Easteregg will be SO revolutionary- it will cost you $499

...remember when Microsoft had character?

instructions unclear, ejected my pc and now its in space

I wasn't popular with my IT teacher when I showed my friends the Excel 97 flight simulator in the middle of a lesson. Everyone was playing on that in no time, instead of making some thrilling spreadsheets and pie charts.

The volcano easteregg is also in xp

actually in windows 10 and 11 you have an easter egg similar to the magic 8 ball to access it open calculor and keep dividding by zero until you see messages.there are 5 of these acessed by doing it a 1-5 times respectivly

Software developing companies were more "human" back then

The 3D Pipes candy cane secret works on Windows 11.

And then the Windows 1.0 and 2.0 easter eggs were discovered a year after this video

doom 95
ip/tcp port 666

You mean to tell me, all those times at school, I could have been playing mini games? Not even the teachers could stop it 😂