Discover a new unknown Easter egg for Windows 95 over 25 years
Released in 1995 by Microsoft as the successor OS to Windows 3.1, '
Windows 95 Easter egg discovered after being hidden for 25 years
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-95-easter-egg-discovered-after-being-hidden-for-25-years/
It was discovered by Albacore, a hacker and developer specializing in Windows. 'It's never too late to find an Easter egg. I've found something like an Easter egg I've never seen before in Internet Mail on Windows 95 / IE 4,' he reports.
It's never too late to find easter eggs. Happened to notice what looks like a never before seen easter egg in Windows 95's / IE4's Internet Mail. You have to open its About window, select one of the files, and type MORTIMER. Names of the Developers Will'S Program Start Scrolling. Pic.Twitter.Com/13ZCdCyBUg
— Albacore (@thebookisclosed) March 26, 2021
How to put out Easter eggs is like this. Press the Windows Start button and click 'Internet Mail' from 'Program' to start Microsoft Internet Mail and News. Microsoft Internet Mail and News is the predecessor of Outlook Express and is the mailer that came with Internet Explorer.
Select 'About Microsoft Internet Mail and News' from 'Help' of Microsoft Internet Mail.
Since the version information of Internet Mail is displayed, highlight 'comctl32.dll' and type ' MORTIMER ' as it is with the keyboard.
Then, the version information window suddenly became a black background, and the staff roll started to flow in red letters. According to IT news media Bleeping Computer, the Easter egg has never been discovered and was found more than 25 years ago.
Albacore also published an Easter egg found in builds 1130-1175 of Windows NT 4.0. This also means that the name of the Windows 95 development staff will flow ...
Windows NT 4.0 betas contain their own variant of the Windows 95 Product Team easter egg. The revision found in builds 1130-1175 includes short but real credits which mentions people like @ davepl1968 — who these days runs the excellent Dave's Garage YouTube channel. Pic. twitter.com/3OVeMeeFlT
— Albacore (@thebookisclosed) March 27, 2021
In build 1227, which is available next to build 1175, the Easter egg itself remains, but the staff role's name is wiped out, 'You would have expected the developer's name to come out, but not. Thank you. 'Thank you ...' was displayed.
Build 1227 (no builds between 1175 and 1227 are available) changes this to a much shorter Thank You note to beta testers, removing all credits-esque features. This revision stayed in until build 1327 which removed the easter egg completely. The MID is present but doesn't play. pic.twitter.com/uNr861xt2w
— Albacore (@thebookisclosed) March 27, 2021
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