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by jedberg 250 days ago
> Generally speaking, programs used to have more Easter eggs. I can't recall a single one in the cloud era.

The problem with Easter Eggs in the web era is that as soon as one person finds it, everyone knows about it. Part of the fun in the boxed software era was that you either had to find it yourself or hear about it from a friend.

That being said, we did have an easter egg on reddit for a long time that very few people noticed. Robots.txt included this:

    User-Agent: bender
    Disallow: /my_shiny_metal_ass 
    
    User-Agent: Gort
    Disallow: /earth
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Sometime in the early 2010s there was a link to a livestream of an office fish tank (I think) in the site footer, but I can't find any mention of it online.
Ms. Splashy Pants! I have her tank here under my desk at this very moment.

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