I’m sure many know Google has a sense of humour. Over the years there have been a number of so-called ‘Easter Eggs‘ hidden away in their sites. From memory, in no particular order and for no particular reason here are my favourites. Remind me of ones I’ve missed in the comments.
YouTube – Play Snake on any Video!
It’s Google-owned so it’s allowed in the list. Re-live the magical days of the Nokia 5110 with YouTube.
As far as I know this is the newest one that has been discovered, so get it while it’s hot. Hold the left key on any YouTube video and the movie will start to skip backwards. Once it gets to the start an old-school and fully-functional game of snake will start, overlayed on the video!
As you’d expect, controls are Up, Down, Left and Right, and if you look closely the ‘apples’ to eat are there, though they can be trick to see depending on the video.
Google Query [anagram]
Search for ‘anagram’ (without the quotes) for a hilarious word joke. Oh Google, you’re bonkers.
Google Query [Life, The Universe and Everything]
In reference to Douglas Adams novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Google kindly provides HAL’s answer to the big question: 42.
Side-note: Did you know that HAL was named by taking the letters from IBM and moving them one place to the left? JCN, probably wouldn’t have had the same ring to it.
about:internets
This sadly doesn’t work anymore (at least not for me in Chrome 5 just now). At one time, if you typed about:internets into the address bar of Chrome and hit enter and you’d be presented with the internet in visual form:
This is the internet of years ago. These days there’s obviously many more tubes and the picture would be much, much bigger.
The Easter Bunny Game
Not strictly an Easter Egg as it was publicised by Google themselves back in April 2000. It’s not even one I particularly like actually but I’m sure someone will. Catch the falling letters that spell G-O-O-G-L-E.
http://www.google.com/Easter/feature_easter.html
And finally…
And last but not least, one that maybe only the geekiest will appreciate: Google Query [recursion].
Which ones are your favourites? Let me know below.
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