The Windows 95 Easter Egg Hidden For 25 Years
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
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Last week, a Twitter user discovered a hidden Easter Egg in Windows 95. One that nobody outside of Microsoft had heard of before. Let's talk about it!
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It may be April Fools, but this story is completely true! Hope you enjoy the video! : )
I trust you
i hope i can trust you today xD
I highly doubt that
Upon further research it’s true
Is really though??? Because if it does, Boi you chose the wrong day to release a content
Considering this has been “forgotten” about until it was brought back up there MUST be hidden eggs in software that’s just straight up missing because who ever made it forget about it.
Lol true
forgot*
well by the sounds of it the guy responsible for putting them into 95, justin ferrari is dead, so we will never really know until the whole thing gets reverse engineered.
i love how, even today, all the Windows 95 devs are still in contact with each other and discussing development stories
And getting their 9x era icons being swept away at Sun Valley update 🙏
Trauma bonding
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Its A night alone not walk through the park
Wow, this is amazing to find out about after all those years! I first discovered the Windows 95 Product Team Credits easter egg in early 2012, so it's interesting to still see hidden content in old Microsoft products being found. Excellent video about it!
You discovered it? Wow.
It was hidden for so long out of fear they would loose there jobs after the great Microsoft Easter egg crack down.
Wooo ee
You know it’s a good Easter egg when nobody finds it for 25 years
It's incredible how one easter egg can regroup some of the Windows 95 dev team members
Avengers, assemble?
Wonder if there's a code to turn Clippy into Mortimer Twinkie?
"I suspect it was Justin's thing and we shall never find out."
I guess that means "Justin" passed, so RIP sneaky dev that inserted this egg on Internet Mail o7
Unfortunately Justin Ferrari was killed by a stray bullet in 2012.
@@nukelauncher95 Dang, that's actually worse than I thought. Hope his soul rest in peace.
@@nukelauncher95 This is why people should never play with guns.
It seams like he died in 2012 from a gun shot www.kiro7.com/news/man-admits-random-killing-seattle-father-zillow-de/246129111/
Very sad that we will never know why the password was MORTIMER
@@wernekinhoo Very sad. RIP : (
You’re a great channel. You deserve more attention than you get.
Legend has it the twinkie is still on the side of that window
But, will it ever be eaten!?
@@Zhortac yeah, one day
bro i thought Michael MJD was trolling me so hard and i get to the end of the video and it's actually real
? real news on April the First?
Oh I see that Michael MJD has uploaded a video that isn't for April fools? Let me get my popcorn!
It's legit though ima go on my win 95 pc and do it and see for myself
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@Zigmas Jucius If that's supposed to be a joke then it's the worst joke I've ever heard.
@@jmooroof1769 holy shit you have a win95pc?
@@joekerr9150 I do not have mail on it sadly. I can't seem to get it to connect to the internet, so mail would be useless.
A channel called Dave's Garage covered this and apparently he was the one that sent the grumpy email about easter eggs. I could be wrong tho.
It probably was him, knowing his stories. He also crashed an easter egg and sent his findings in a companywide email. That got him off of that easter egg.
I didn't even consider it was possible for this to be an april fools joke, I just clicked on it immediately lol
With that being said, I wonder if there's any that are still hidden in XP?
Verison 1 of Windows XP was completely decompiled so it’s extremely unlikely there’s anything about the operating system no one knows about.
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Shoutout to all those Dave’s Garage fans out there, you know who you are! :)
Still waiting for him to give the meaning of Comfy Chair haha
@@saidtaliby Hm, the only comfy chair I know of was actually a torture device used by the spanish inquisition in the early 1900s.
Hello :-)
I have a feeling that someone will eventually discover a developer's suicide note hidden inside of Windows 95, considering we already have the Hall of Tortured Souls.
No one explored the secrets of HoTS.
@@fishyc43sar .. heart of the swarm?
Hall of Tortured Souls.
"Mortimer" could also be a reference to Commander Keen, the main character Keen is Billy Blaze and his nemesis is Mortimer McMire. Also Mortimer McMire uses the colors of Black and Red, the same colors the easter egg uses.
I love the stark difference between a fan's (Michael MJD) perspective on easter eggs vs an actual Windows9x/NT developer's (Dave Plummer from Dave's Garage). DaveP has said that he *hates* easter eggs, but we, the fans, absolutely love them.
Yay a real video on 1st of april.I like the times when new easter eggs get discovered.Great video MJD.
Well, it is nearly Easter!
Yes finally the real video
Fantastic! It was very informative.
No easter eggs policy is the dumbest thing microsoft’s ever done
I mean I’d have to imagine there have definitely been worse decisions made
but this is just kinda dumb
Two videos in an HOUR!? What a treat!
Well, the other one doesn't exactly qualify as a full-fledged one, right?
@@BilisNegra An MJD video is always a treat.
@@MarcoGPUtuber Ok, I guess you're right. It was a piece of minimalistic art!
Mortimer was also the original name for Mickey Mouse... which is hilarious because of Disney’s occult connections. Apparently the name means something like “Dead Sea” - from French (mort + mer)...
Hey MJD, just wanted to let you know, your piano music in the video today made me think of the Peanuts. Usually that was the same kind of Jazz / easy listening music used in the soundtrack. Interesting video all around. Have a great day!
From the title and date I though Microsoft had laid an Easter egg that somehow wouldn't activate until April fools 2021. Still interesting tho.
I read about this in a Finnish tech magazine. Very interesting topic!
Heard the non april fools news about Minecraft? About the new world limit being the 64 bit integer limit with a new mod that was incredibly complicated to make.
I'm sat here waiting for the two videos that DankPods uploads on a Thursday and see your video and you start playing music that DankPods also plays in some of his videos.
This was actually already known. It was included in the Windows 95/NT Superguide. Since it seems to be so unknown that may be the first time it was mentioned. I guess since it is in a book and not easily searchable on the web that is the reason nobody remembers it being in the book. I need to see if I still have my copy laying around. If so I'll upload a video showing where it tells about the Mortimer code.
I got a old windows 7 laptop and it was my daily laptop witch I LOST ALL OF MY FILES so I can’t make computer videos. Witch I put windows 10 on it a few years ago like I meen like 2020. And i got SO MUCH COMPUTERS so I have back ups.
This "Headphone-Test-Music[;)]" just reminds me of another great channel
Is it dankpods?
@@coincollectorsaustralia6396 oh yeah...
Brilliant. Going to check out your Windows 98 Easter eggs now
In Windows 10, open the control panel. In the search bar at the upper right type the letter A . Now you will see the complete list of all the main Windows OS commands listed by category and by alphabetical order.
6:03 LOVED the Dave('s Garage) reference there. Did not expect to hear about him in the context of this story. Cool!
Eyy, nice job! u found all of Windows 95 easter eggs! Or have you?
There is also an easter egg in the Windows 95 Telnet application. you have to type in modem cmds followed by a line of text.
Check out david plumber's channel dave's garage.
Ex windows dev. Gives a lot of insight into the early NT era.
Yay, we need more stories like this today, otherwise we would just assume that every thing we hear is April fool's joke.
The easter egg was discovered on March 26th, the same date that the comic strip featuring Mortimer ended.
I'm glad to hear that the developers of Windows 95 are still around. I really liked that OS version.
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I think the email about Easter eggs came from Dave Plummer, he recently made a video about this egg and another on his channel and managed to use this Easter egg to cause a crash to prove his point that they shouldn't be in the release versions of the OS !
It's hard enough to avoid bugs and backdoor without games and other bullshit...see solar winds...
Lucas Brooks found an easter egg 36 years later in Windows 1.0. He posted a tweet about it. :)
Have you tried searching the newsgroup archives for Mortimer before that date?
My mom was always Apple and my pops always pc. She had this T-shirt she’d wear when we’d go to software conventions and swap meets that said “Windows 95 = Macintosh 87”. It used to drive pops nuts.
Nice video!
I imagine how that must be one of the cool sides to being a software developer... people talk to you about it, and you're like thinking to yourself, "yeah, I codded that thingamajig"...
That immediate "Hold on!? My spidey senses are tingling..." moment when you hear DankPods background music on Michael's video... very satisfying an nice... props to you Michael and to the Dankest of Pods Wade... :)
Didn’t know he uses that music too, lol!
@@MichaelMJD Yes he mostly uses it when showcasing how good or bad the product in question is in terms of sound quality... plays that Walk Through the Park (I think that's what's it called) music and puts the product on the "creepy ears on a stand" for the viewers to listen
I didn't even know Windows 95 had Easter Eggs. That's cool that it was found right before Easter!
Great video!
OMG!!! I actually knew about this way back in 1999 when my college buddy showed me this. He typed in that same name while executing the exact same on screen. Na this isn't new. Sorry
Justin's reason for the password is simple, they needed MORE TIME for the product...
Just in time for Easter!!!
Asking to remove them? I really think Easter eggs are one of the coolest and more memorable features for any kind of software!
To me it seems most likely that this Easter egg is a reference to both Trading Places and Coming to America. In Trading Places Don Ameche played Mortimer Duke and I’m Coming to America Mortimer and his brother Randolf suddenly appeared in a pile of garbage when Eddie Murphy’s Prince Akeem tosses a large wad of cash into the garbage pile. Randolf responds by saying “Mortimer, we’re back!”. At least if you asked this computer programmer (not at Microsoft) at that time to name a Mortimer Trading Places would have been my first answer.
Happy to see a normal video today
Same here! It was very informative (legitimately).
One Easter egg I have not seen mentioned is the teapot that can appear in the screen saver called Pipes, I have seen it 4 times. It happened randomly with (I think it's called ) joints turned on
This is the earliest I’ve ever been
same
Same
MORTIMER HAS BEEN THE NAME OF A SCRUBBER SPONGE DISH CLEANER HERE IN ARGENTINA FOR DECADES
woah, woah... that hall of tortured souls looks familiar... Didn't know that part of ENA was based on something. I know it's weird to bring that up, maybe even out of place or weird, but that's neat
Mortimer was also the original name for Mickey Mouse!
Ah yes, something not April Fools, at last. BTW how did you even make 2 vids at 1hr? Like I know it was only 10-20secs, but still...
>checks date
Hmmm...
11 comments, 30 views, 20 likes, 0 dislikes. Wow
Edit:bruh 24 dislikes already
Mortimer was also the name of a very old cartoon vulture...
I first heard of the Mail Easter Egg from Dave’s Garage.
If you don’t have Windows 95 B or C, you can recreate the steps on a VM that runs in your browser at copy.sh slash v86.
Of course they blame it on the deceased team member
Have you seen Dave Plummer's video about this?
The internet history snooping really had a feel of some grunters searching for the egg in ready player one. lol, the internet is a wonderful, terrible, place. Thanks
I went into this video with suspicion since it had an April 2nd date (in Australia, which is April 1st for the US), but this turned out truly interesting. I love knowing that people are still finding new things in Windows 95, even in 2021 😂. Also, it's great seeing the devs basically go on a nostalgia trip when it got brought up on Twitter.
So I bought one of those clapper Christmas story additions. Damn thing will not work, this made me feel better about it.
The whole "absolutely no easter eggs" thing was honestly kind of excessive. Restrict where and what they can be and what the triggers can be, sure. But having a secret click pattern or passcode in the about window to open a list of developer names is fine.
Well there is another easter egg that you can find if you run windows95 in MS-DOS. My dad found pictures on windows 95 disc
Any video coming out on April 1st is kinda sus
I was literally waiting for your video on this new Easter egg!
Awesome video, Michael!
Thanks!
That sure was fun to know about!
I clicked on this expecting a cool, entertaining April Fool's video. Boy was I "disappointed" ;-)
Ew ugh! Something reaks here! Is it the egg?
Early 2000 year Volvo seat control modules have an easter egg in the CPU's unused memory.
Programmer talks about his daughter, she likes bugs and frogs if I remember.
1:12 DankPods audio test feeling
Easter eggs help give a product soul and character... Upper management, "We are an upstanding company, we have no soul, remove all Easter eggs, or be banished to heaven."
found the line "I Hate Jello" when looking at some microsoft code.
Keep on making videos! I love them ❤️
Day 2 of asking for a video teaching us how to make Windows 10 look like Windows 98.
This secret is as old as a rotten egg.
Day 1 of asking for a video teaching us how to make Windows 10 look like Windows 98.
There was me thinking they where going to find loads of Mosaic code in IE...
Im not sure if i should trust this after the first video today.
Windows 10 Easter Egg: A fast computer laptop. No one has found it yet
Even my mid-range laptop gets crappier with each update. Time to backup and go Ubuntu.
I want to know more about the twinkie story now.
Talking about reverse engineering, I remember the "Space Cadet" pinball game from Windows 98 and XP. I am using Linux now and I have discovered that you can find the game in the software center in most Debian-based and Arch-based Linux operating systems including Ubuntu. In this OS, though, the version of "Space Cadet" pinball included is the "Full Tilt" one.
The world is full of possibilities.
I live in Australia and its the 2nd today, so I can't tell if this is april fools or not :(
Funny how people are talking about April fools Day when it's literally Easter lol
and linux people says that proprietary software is harmful for your privacy, computer and daily life. Look at all those hidden easter eggs!
that twinkie story was really funny to me idk why
it came out!