This might be one of the enlightening writeups you will be reading this holiday period and perhaps remind you of what you already know.
Everyone uses the internet directly and indirectly. If you use the internet directly, this is for you. Have you heard of Easter Eggs? Oh no! Not those fancy painted eggs and bunny ears this time around.
As an internet user, you use the internet every day most easily with a browser. Then you must have come across Easter Eggs whether you know it or not.
Internet Easter Eggs are thrilling features hidden in applications and software by their developers. Though some users have confused Easter Eggs with online threats and viruses. These features aim to give the user a feel of that awesomeness from the real-life “egg hunt during every easter season”. Yeah! They nailed it and it in no way causes you or your device harm.
Wanna be WAOOOOO-ed. Here are some amazing Easter eggs for you to hunt.
1. Wikipedia
[Easter Egg Media]
- When one searches for Easter Egg on Wikipedia, the result page contains two rabbits and a hedgehog. Ordinarily, nothing happens when you click the rabbit or any part of the image, but once you click on the hedgehog a result page for Easter Eggs pops up. Tada!
2. Google
Google has a varying range of Easter Eggs loaded up on their search engine
[Games]
- Dinosaur Game
Have you ever tried searching on Google without being connected to the internet, if yes you must have seen the Google Dinosaur Game? An endless run game that stops when you fail to avoid the shrub obstacle.
- Atari Breakout
An arcade video game by Google where you try to break out a ball that has been barricaded with blocks. To try this, open google.com on a web browser. Type “google atari breakout games” and click I’m feeling lucky.
[Tricks]
- Askew
This is one of the easiest Easter eggs that Google has developed. This trick completely makes skew your result page when you search “askew” in the Google search box. You can try it out!
- Zerg Rush
Similar to most other google Easter Eggs. Open Google browser on a web browser. Type “zerg rush” and click I’m feeling lucky. Wait for the magic 🤩
3. Easter Egg in Android
Most of us are familiar with this. This Easter Egg is hidden in your android version. Navigate to settings > about phone > android version > android version and tap fast continuously to reveal the Easter Egg.
Easter eggs have existed since computer programming existed even before smartphones. It has been serving its purpose since then, giving users the feeling of Easter discovery since then.
This invention can be traced back to Snake Xenzia, Bounce, and Grand Theft Auto where you can input a particular string to change the mode of the game. So next time when you are browsing the internet and you come across an Easter Egg, you can relax, it’s not a threat it’s just to thrill and excite you. You are SAFE.