The Internet is full of “easter eggs”: small hidden games and entertainment for its users to enjoy. What secrets do they hide?Internet Easter eggs or “easter eggs” are small surprises or entertainment intentionally placed by the programmers of an application or web page. They are usually jokes or games that are hidden, and normally when you discover them you can’t help but draw a smile. After all, programmers are also human and usually have a pronounced sense of humor.
We could say that Microsoft was a pioneer in introducing small gags into its programs. From its beginnings it began to introduce a series of winks that sought nothing more than the complicity of the user: In its Office 97 package, both Excel and Word came with a flight simulator and a pinball hidden among their code. Imagine the surprise of writing a job for your boss and suddenly seeing yourself piloting a fighter jet at 400 km/hour! Epic!
Nowadays we can find Easter eggs scattered in every corner of the Internet, and frankly you can find everything: from subtle jokes to completely ingenious surprises, nothing escapes the feverish minds of the programmers of our favorite websites. And since you are surely wanting to know what those mysterious secret jokes are, let’s go straight to the nougat.
Friends characters on Google
Do a Google search and type “Friends Joey”, or “Friends Chandler”, or any other of the protagonists of this legendary American comedy.
In the Google results you will see that an image appears next to the name of each character. Activate the volume of your device and click on the image. Each of the characters has a hidden wink.
The Konami code
Konami was a video game company that became famous in the 80s and 90s for introducing secret codes into its games by combining buttons, which allowed certain achievements or special features to be unlocked.
For years a lot of websites did really strange things when you went in and executed this command with the keyboard. Nowadays there are almost no websites that have this “Easter egg” incorporated, but the Konami code still survives in inhospitable places such as, for example, the Amazon assistant. If you have Alexa at home, write the Konami code to her and “ Super Alexa mode ” will be activated.
StarFox
One of the most remembered games from the video game world of the 90s is StarFox on the Super Nintendo. Well, it seems that Google also really liked this game, because if you type “Do a barrel roll” or “Z or R twice” (without quotes) in Google, look, look what happens…
Do the Harlem Shake
There is an infinite amount of music on YouTube, and surely Mr. Youtube would also like to let his hair down a little from time to time, right? Type “do the Harlem shake” into the YouTube search engine and wait a few seconds. Party!
Welcome, humans!
The Firefox folks also like to play a little with the user, and they seem to get along well with robots. So much so that they even let them insert hidden messages into their browser. Try typing “ about:robots ” in Mozilla Firefox.
The Chrome Dinosaur Game
Surely you have noticed that cute dinosaur that appears in Google Chrome when you don’t have an Internet connection and you try to load a page. If you see that T-Rex, the first thing you want to do is give it a bite. If instead of biting you click on “ Details ” you will see how the dinosaur starts to run and suddenly you find yourself in a nice mini-game.
Google anagrams
An anagram is a word that can be formed by changing the order of the letters of another word. It seems Google likes anagrams too. Therefore, when you type the word “ anagram ” in Google, our favorite search engine takes the license to correct us. Did you perhaps mean…?
