Definition of Easter egg
Easter egg
noun
- A feature of a computer program that only presents itself in response to some undocumented set of commands or keystrokes, intended as a joke or to display program credits.
notes
- One well-known early Easter egg found in a couple of OSes caused them to respond to the command "make love" with "not war?". Many personal computers have much more elaborate eggs hidden in ROM, including lists of the developers' names, political exhortations, snatches of music, and (in one case) graphics images of the entire development team.
origin
- from the custom of the Easter Egg hunt observed in the U.S. and many parts of Europe.
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