Love this memory, thanks for sharing. I remember doing the same thing to school computers. The challenge was being subtle enough to avoid detection from the teaching staff, but funny enough to be noticed and appreciated by the rest of the students. Funny being entirely subjective, of course!
Re:Long live software Easter eggs
by NickRandom on Friday July 01, 2022 @09:16AM
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Ah fun days! I just used to swap the startup and shutdown screens by renaming them to each other. The look of confusion on peoples faces as they clicked 'shutdown' and were faced with a 'Windows 95 is starting up' screen was priceless.
Thanks to an Easter egg in Photoshop, I got my 2nd job, an entry into the world of the Internet. While waiting for my interview, I did some design of a mosaic of the splash images and the other from the Easter egg. The CEO/Director saw that and asked me how I did the trick. I start the following month.
Not really an Easter egg, but in Windows 3x (I think or WIN95), the startup and shutdown splash screens are just bitmaps (.bmp) and are easily editable in Paint. In the 90s, there was a high-profile computer showcase in our hometown. My friends and I dressed in school uniforms and could quickly get in. As a show-off to my friends, I edited the BMPs in Paint and freaked out the organizers (I backed/copied the originals next to the edited one). My friends think I'm the Hackerman.