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Read more: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg_(media)
TIL the term “Easter Egg” was coined in 1979 by an Atari software developer to describe a hidden message in a video game.
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“The earliest known Easter egg in software in general is one placed in the “make” command for PDP-6/PDP-10 computers sometime in October 1967–October 1968, wherein if the user attempts to create a file named “love” by typing “make love”, the program responds “not war?” before proceeding.”
It’s crazy that they built a whole holiday around that
I think Easter Eggs pre-date computers. No proof. But I’ll fall on my Zelda sword on this.
You’ve never seen Ready Player One and it shows