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Windows 95 Easter Egg Discovered After Being Hidden for 25 Years

posted by martyb on Sunday March 28 2021, @10:09AM   Printer-friendly
from the who-remembers-when-Windows-95-was-released? dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:

Windows 95 Easter egg discovered after being hidden for 25 years:

When developing software, it is not uncommon for developers to slip in a secret hidden feature, message, or even a mini-game, that users can discover by performing particular actions in a program.

[...] This week, a new Easter egg in Windows 95's Internet Mail program has been discovered by Windows hacker and developer Albacore, opening a secret window that displays a scrolling list of the developer's names.

Before this discovery, there is no known mention of this Easter egg, meaning it has remained undiscovered for close to 25 years.

[...] To access the Easter egg, users need to launch Internet Mail, click on Help, and then About. When the About screen opens, click on the listed comctl32.dll file, so it becomes highlighted, and then type MORTIMER on your keyboard.

After typing 'mortimer,' a small window will be displayed that will begin to list the Internet Mail developer's names, as shown in the video above that was shared with BleepingComputer.

See the linked story on Bleeping Computer for links to this Easter egg and another one for Windows 95 itself.

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  • (Score: 2) by Revek on Sunday March 28 2021, @05:48PM (3 children)

    by Revek (5022) on Sunday March 28 2021, @05:48PM (#1130371)

    Why?

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 28 2021, @09:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 28 2021, @09:13PM (#1130442)

    Because diversity hires are necessary for quotas, but don't have the skills to do anything useful.

  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday March 28 2021, @10:15PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Sunday March 28 2021, @10:15PM (#1130469)

    How: I'd bet the hacker was using a disassembly tool on the code and spotted the MORTIMER keyword, it's not the kind of thing you'd stumble into.

    Why: LULZ and notoriety.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 30 2021, @03:23AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 30 2021, @03:23AM (#1131054)

    Why do people restore old cars? Everybody needs a hobby.