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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Easter egg</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../E.html" title="E"/><link rel="previous" href="../E.html" title="E"/><link rel="next" href="Easter-egging.html" title="Easter egging"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Easter egg</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../E.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">E</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="Easter-egging.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Easter-egg"/><dt xmlns="" id="Easter-egg"><b>Easter egg</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the custom of the Easter Egg hunt observed in the U.S. and
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many parts of Europe] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. A message hidden in the object code of a program as a joke,
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intended to be found by persons disassembling or browsing the code.
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</p></dd><dd><p> 2. A message, graphic, or sound effect emitted by a program (or, on
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a PC, the BIOS ROM) in response to some undocumented set of commands or
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keystrokes, intended as a joke or to display program credits. One
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well-known early Easter egg found in a couple of OSes caused them to
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respond to the command <b class="command">make love</b> with
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<b class="command">not war?</b>. Many personal computers have
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much more elaborate eggs hidden in ROM, including lists of the developers'
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names, political exhortations, snatches of music, and (in one case)
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graphics images of the entire development team.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../E.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="Easter-egging.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">E<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>Easter egging</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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