The first Windows was released on April 8, 1985, and since then no one has found this well-hidden easter egg.
03/28/2022 – Easter eggs hidden in programs are by no means rare. Many games, applications and other software contain various secrets, including, of course, the world’s most widespread operating system, Windows. Many people believe that Microsoft’s developers hid their very first easter egg in Windows 3.0, but this assumption seems to be changing now.
A retro Windows fan named Lucas Brooks searched the depths of the very first graphical operating system, which is 37 years old this year, until he found something really strange. At the cost of serious tricks, he managed to conjure up a bitmap that at first looked like a smiling head, which turned out to be the real secret hidden under his files.
And this is nothing but a list of developers working on Windows, thus paying tribute to their work. Browsing the roster, however, another surprise may catch our eye, as Gabe Newell, considered a young titan, who later became the most recognized figure in the PC gaming market, appears among the big names.
Which version of @Windows is the first to include Easter eggs? Windows 3.0? Nope. What if I tell you there is an Easter egg in Windows 1.0 RTM? This is what I have recently discovered: pic.twitter.com/dbfcv4r7jj
— Lucas Brooks (@mswin_bat) March 18, 2022
By the way, Newell left Harvard University for Microsoft in 1983, where he actively participated in the creation of Windows systems, and he also led the work on porting Doom to Windows. Driven by a great idea, in 1996, together with Mike Harrington, they left Bill Gates and founded Valve, and the rest is history.
By the way, the Windows 1.0 easter egg is interesting not only because the method for the actual retrieval of bmp has not yet been discovered, but also because if someone had found it back then, they would not have been able to access its contents. When the first Windows was released, there were no tools available to average users that could be used to decipher the contents of the bitmap.
And why was this hidden? Well, there were times when it was not customary to indicate the names of people working on programs and games, so the user could only identify and connect them with the companies. Then all of a sudden there was a guy working at Atari named Warren Robinett, who was satisfied with exploiting companies and hid his name well in his game called Adventure:
via – TechSpot
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