Hidden Secrets & Easter Eggs
Real hidden features, easter eggs and little-known tech history.
im literally losing my mind here my Wi Fi kept dropping and someone said "check ur router admin page". I didnt even know routers had one. On Windows, I ran ipconfig and looked for "Default Gateway", it was 192.168.1.1. typed that into the browser and got a…
so i've been messing around with my workstation setup lately and i noticed something super weird... when i switch to the 'balanced' power profile in the bios, my idle 1c is basically non existent. like it stays at a constant temp even when the system is…
guys pls help is it just me or is the start menu getting way more cluttered lately??? i feel like every time i update, microsoft decides to shove even more 'reocmmended' junk and sponsored stuff right in the middle of my actual apps. tbh i hate having to…
im literally losing my mind here sonic the Hedgehog (Sega Genesis / Mega Drive, 1991) has a hidden level select. On the title screen (with Sonic in the emblem), press Up, Down, Left, Right. If you did it right, youll hear a chime. Then hold A and press…
ok weird one classic gaming moment: Psycho Mantis. In Metal Gear Solid, Mantis checks ur PlayStation memory card and mentions specific Konami games uve played. He also does things like make teh screen go black as if the TV switched inputs. To fight him…
Today I learned macOS has a built in toggle for hidden files. In Finder or any Open/Save dialog, press Cmd+Shift+peroid. Dotfiles and hidden folders show up semi transparent so you know they're normally hidden. I've been opening Terminal and running ls la to…
i wanted to make a script run at login and every guide gave me a long path through AppData. Then someone said: press Win+R, type shell:startup, Enter. boom, the Startup folder for my user opened xD drop a shortcut there and it runs at login. turns out there…
long time lurker first post lol okay, retro folks, I finally did it. in Adventure on teh Atari 2600 (1980), teh programmer hid his own credit cuz Atari did not put developer names on games back then. How it works: play game 2 or 3 xD Inside the Black Castles…
im literally losing my mind here my nephew was convinced Herobrine (the white eyed figure from old Minecraft creepypasta) was stalking his world. So I went digging. the truth: Herobrine has never been in teh game, it started as a fan horror story with a…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts im a support tech and this tool saved me hundreds of hours lol Steps Recorder captures what a user clicks, with screenshots of each step, no install needed... u can even add comments mid recording. the catch: it doesnt…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts i wanted a super simple work log without installing anything. someone told me about Notepads .LOG trick. create a new text file, type .LOG in uppercase as the very first line, save it, and close it. the next time you…
i'm replaying the original Zelda and found out about the ZELDA name trick. At file registration, type ZELDA as ur name. The game drops you into the Second Quest from the start. Its teh post game hard mode with rearranged dungeons and new secrets. Its one of…
halo 3 has 13 hidden skulls across the campaign, and one of them changes nothing except what characters say. The IWHBYD skull, located on The Covenant, makes rare diaolgue much more common. Grunts get chatty, Marines say weird things. Its purely for fun.…
hmmmm ok you know teh bouncing yellow text next to the Minecraft logo?? 😂 Those are splash texts, and there are hundreds of them, pulled at random each time teh title screen loads. The secret part: on certain dates teh game skips the random pick and shows a…
long time lurker first post lol metroid on the NES uses passwords instead of battery saves. The most famous one is: JUSTIN BAILEY followed by dashes to fill teh rest (written as 'JUSTIN BAILEY '). Enter it and you start with Samus out of her power suit, in a…
ok so i used python m http.server to move photos from my PC to my phone on the same Wi Fi 😭 Started the server in the folder, opened my PC's local IP address with :8000 on the phone, and downloaded them from teh listing. No cables, no cloud. But then I…
im literally losing my mind here i learned that the @ sign was a somewhat obscure symbol before email, used in accounting for prices like "5 apples @ 10 cents" 🙏 in 1971 it was chosen to separate user and computer names in the first ARPANET email system.…
wttr.in tricks: 1. curl wttr.in: forecast for your location. 2. curl wttr.in/Paris: a specific city. 3. curl wttr.in/Moon: moon phase. 4. curl "wttr.in/Paris?format=3": one line output. 5. curl wttr.in/:help: all options. Works with PowerShells curl.exe on…
help!! so the original Diablo had a fan rumor that clicking a certain cow enough times opened a secret level. it wasnt true, blizzard leaned into it: in StarCraft the cheat code there is no cow level exists, and in Diablo II they actually added the Secret…
In 1991, researchers at the University of Cambridge Computer Lab had one coffee pot in the Trojan Room, and people on other floors kept walking there to find it empty. So they pointed a camera at it, and wrote software that showed a small grayscale image on…
my niece always grabs my phone and starts browsing my phtoos. enter App pinning. On Android, turn on App pinning in Security settings. Then pin the cartoon app from the Recents screen by tapping its icon and choosing Pin. Now she can only use that app. To…
long time lurker first post lol for years I would click teh address bar, copy the folder path, paste it, then type a backslash and teh file name. Today I learned that if you hold Shift and right click a file in File Explorer, teh menu gets extra items,…
For anyone lost in their UEFI setup: 1. Enter the BIOS (usually Del or F2 during boot). 2 🤷 look for "Advanced Mode" or "EZ Mode" at the bottom or top. 3. On many ASUS and MSI boards its F7. 4. You can usually set Advanced Mode as the default in the…
hmmmm ok i always assumed the internet and teh web were the same thing. nope. the internet is teh network, and the web is the system of linked pages running on top of it, invented at CERN around 1989 to 1991 sooo scientists could share information. The first…
im literally losing my mind here quick tip before you touch any BIOS setting: 1. Press Win+R. 2... type msinfo32. 3. read System Summary. youll see BIOS Version/Date, BIOS Mode, Secure Boot State, BaseBoard Manufacturer and Product, and whether…
