it's a hidden secret placed by the application's programmer. the first easter egg i ever found was in the game 'adventure' on the atari 2600. you could find a black dot in the black dragon's castle, carry it over to this other room and you'd walk into a hidden room that had the author's name.
lots of games have easter eggs. a few utilities too. and perhaps sawfish. :) pete begin: Aaron King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote > I thought of sawfish too.... what's an easter egg? > > A. > > Micah Cowan wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 09:18:11AM -0800, Aaron King wrote: > > > Strange thing just happened. I was working at my computer (Mandrake > > > 8.1, Gnome 1.4.0.4, Sawfish 1.0, some KDE apps running) when a small > > > fish swam across the screen. I don't think this was the screensaver, > > > since I was actively typing at the time. I have never seen this > > > before. I looked for suspicious processes running, but didn't see > > > anything that looked odd to me. > > > > > > Has anyone seen this before? Any ideas what's going on? > > > > > > Aaron > > > > Maybe you discovered an easter egg? My guess would be Sawfish's. > > > > Micah > > _______________________________________________ > > vox-tech mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > > -- > ====================================================================== > Aaron King, Ph.D. http://two.ucdavis.edu/~aking > Dept. of Environmental Science & Policy mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > University of California Tel: 530/752 3026 > One Shields Avenue, Davis CA 95616 USA Fax: 530/752 3350 > ====================================================================== > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D PGP Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
