The oldest Windows Easter egg.
In the past, looking for Easter eggs in programs and software has been a topic that has aroused the interest of many people - developers hide all kinds of strange content in the program in various ways, mostly developer lists or mini-game music and other content. But triggering an Easter egg itself is a metaphysics, there is no command prompt, there is no law to follow, and the desire to trigger is almost entirely dependent on the user's own "sense of smell" to try.
The charm of the Easter eggs also lies in the story behind them - Windows 98 developers come from different regions, and through a "You_are_a_real_rascal" (you are a real rogue) you can see the Staff list and office locations; and in the Atari game Adventure, the oppression-hating Warren Binnett and other developers hide their names in hidden levels to fight against their bosses who only care about making money.
Recently, Windows enthusiast Lucas Brooks claimed on his Twitter that he had found the oldest Windows Easter egg, along with a video featuring a list of system developers.
According to Lucas Brooks, the Windows 1.0 Easter egg was hidden very deeply, "They hid a piece of encrypted data at the end of the smiley face bitmap file, and there was no tool to extract the bitmap from NE at that time, and even if someone could extract it, they wouldn't notice the extra data at the end." ”
However, he said that he had not yet found the way to trigger the 1.0 Easter egg, and the reason why he was able to turn over the list of developers was that he used reverse engineering to make the Easter egg appear in front of him.
With the exposure of this 37-year-old Windows 1.0 developer list, the majority of netizens were also surprised to find a familiar name in it - Gabe Newell, which is the familiar G fat.
We all know that G Fat once dropped out of Harvard and came to work at Microsoft in 1983, and this stay was 13 years. He has said that he is the producer of the first three versions of Windows, and from the perspective of time, it is reasonable to participate in the development of Windows 1.0, and it is not difficult to understand that it appears in the Easter egg list.
It is worth mentioning that the big man in the game industry is not polite to his old club. In 2012, Microsoft released the Windows 8 system, and its Launch of the WinRT operating system requires developer applications to be published through the Windows App Store, which is different from the system model that Windows has always been open in the past, and once caused widespread criticism from developers.
In the face of the 30% draw of the app store and the exclusive game release platform restrictions, Steam based on the PC side of the Windows system will naturally be affected, G Fat is quite dissatisfied with this, he has publicly accused the Windows 8 system of "a disaster for the PC industry."
But this is all the old yellow calendar. About a month ago, Microsoft abandoned its exclusive game release plan through its own marketplace and put a lot of games on the Steam platform — which seemed like a good thing, but who couldn't ignore the rise of XGP. The subscription service has brought millions of console and PC users to Microsoft, all of which belong to Microsoft's own apps, and it's hard to say whether they will pose a direct threat to Steam in the near future.
In an interview with the media, G Fat made it clear that although Steam is unlikely to imitate Microsoft's increase in its own game subscription service, the expansion of XGP to its own platform is "obviously a popular choice."
G Fat also publicly expressed his willingness to cooperate with Microsoft, and claimed that they had started discussions with Microsoft on this issue. After all, there is a precedent for the EA Play subscription service to join Steam, and the fate of XGP and Steam is still there - perhaps the name G Fat appears in the Windows 1.0 Easter egg, which is a good sign.