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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.
(Score: 3, Informative) by SomeGuy on Monday March 29 2021, @11:53AM
The original Windows 95 did indeed include a TCP/IP stack, as well as print and file sharing. Peer-to-peer networking was actually one of it's big features.
Like most software of the time, the networking component and even individual protocols were optional. So you may not have seen it installed on some standalone computer.
The original 95 RTM release actually did not include "Internet mail", and sometimes even omitted the web browser. Microsoft originally wanted to promote Microsoft Exchange, and MSN instead.
The screen shot from the linked article appears to be from Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2, which forcibly non-optionally bundled Internet Explorer 3 and Outlook Express (Internet Mail).
- Posted from Microsoft Windows 95