Hidden Secrets & Easter Eggs
Real hidden features, easter eggs and little-known tech history.
Guests asking for your Wi Fi password? On Android 10 and newer, you can show a QR code. go to Settings Network & internet Internet (or Wi Fi). tap the gear or the network youre connected to, then tap Share. confirm with your PIN or fingerprint. A QR code…
DevTools tricks that saved me time this week: 1 :D Ctrl+Shift+P: command menu, try "screenshot" or "dark". 2. $0: currently selected element in the cnosole. 3. copy(something): copies any value to teh clipboard. 4. document.designMode = "on": makes teh page…
so annoyed rn finally did it on my original NES: the Minus World. The setup: in World 1 2, go to the area near the end with the pipe that exits the level 🙏 Break teh bricks except the one at the right edge, stand near the wall, and do a ducking backwards…
emoji history in steps: 1. Late 1990s, Japan: mobile carriers add pictograms to their phones. 2 😭 1999: NTT Docomos i mode set with 176 icons on a 12x12 grid becomes the famous one. 3. other carriers make their own incompatible sets. 4. 2010: emoji are…
undertale name screen secrets i found tonight: Frisk gives a warning and satrts hard mode. 'Gaster' instantly restarts the game. Typing teh names of some main characters gets a funny reaction or an outright refusal. the hard mode is short, it ends patrway…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts mac Terminal party trick: 1. Open Terminal. 2. Type say "I am your computer". 3. Enjoy. Useful stuff: say v ? lists voices, r changes the speaking rate, and say o out.aiff "some text" saves the speech to an audio file…
My dad told me Excel used to have a flight simulator hidden in it and I thought he was trolling. Nope. Excel 97 had a hidden 3D flight sim easter egg, triggered by a specific key sequence on a blank sheet. You could fly over a landscape with teh names of the…
Today i learned i can keep a command out of bash history by starting it with a space, as long as HISTCONTROL includes ignorespace or ignoreboth. Ubuntu's default .bashrc uses ignoreboth, so it probably already works for many people. also, history grep was…
ugh. hidden Android menu: 4636 . Type it in the dialer and, on supported phones, a Testing screen appears. Inside: Phone information: network type, signal strength, data status. Usage staitstics: which apps youve used and for how long. Wi Fi information:…
ugh. my dad still knows the Konami Code by heart from playing Contra as a kid 👍 I knew it from websites that do weird animations when u type it... turns out it started as a developers testing cheat in Gradius, because he found the game too hard to finish…
One of my favorite environmental secrets ever: the hidden dens in Portal. in several test chambers u can find openings that lead behind the clean white panels. inside there are messy hideouts with drawings, poems and warnings scrawled on teh walls. one…
help!! i saw an API return "418 Im a teapot" and thought it was a bug. Its a joke with history. On 1 April 1998, RFC 2324 described the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP). It defined status 418 for when you ask a teaopt to brew coffee. it was…
Quick history fact: the first .com domain ever registered was symbolics.com, on 15 March 1985. Symbolics was a computer company that made Lisp machines. For years only a small number of companies bothered with .com domains, it was mostly universities and…
i just started a Fallout: New Vegas run with Wild Wasteland, and its so much fun. The trait adds weird and silly events: a skeleton in a fridge with a fedora, unusual weapons, and references to movies and other games. Some of these replace more serious…
one of my favorite tiny Minecraft secrets: the Dinnerbone name tag. steps: 1. Get a name tag (fishing, chests, or trading with librarian villagers). 2. use an anvil to rename it Dinnerbone. 3. use it on any mob. The mob flips upside down. The joke is about a…
Doom II spoiler for a game from 1994, so i think we're fine. On the last level (MAP30, the Icon of Sin), you beat teh boss by firing rockets into an exposed spot in the giant demon wall. Whats behind it? If you use the noclip cheat (icdlip) in single player…
im literally losing my mind here two ways to get into teh BIOS from Windows without the boot key race: 1. admin terminal: shutdown /r /fw /t 0. 2. settings System Recovery Advanced startup Restart now, then Troubleshoot Advanced options UEFI Firmware…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts cutest Android easter egg ever: Android Neko. Nougat (7.x): tap Android version repeatedly, long press the N, then add the new Quick Settings tile with teh food bowl. Over time, cats show up and you can collect them.…
help!! hidden iPhone accessibility feature: Live Listen. Add teh Hearing control in Settings Control Center. Then, with your AirPods connected, open Control Center, tap the ear icon and turn on Live Listen. ur iPhone becomes a microphone that streams sound…
guys pls help rockstars sense of humor in one image: a door with a sign saying No Hidden Content Here, and behind it, hidden content. in GTA IV, Happiness Island's statue has a hidden interoir... climb up the ladders and u'll see a giant beating heart…
i built a little petting zoo in my Minecraft world and needed a centerpiece. Enter teh jeb sheep: name tag a sheep 'jeb ' and it cycles through the rainbow forever. its a developer name easter egg, similar to naming a mob Dinnerbone to flip it upside down.…
okay, i feel like i just found a cheat code in my own OS. on teh desktop, right click New Folder, and name it exactly this: GodMode.{ED7BA470 8E54 465E 825C 99712043E01C} The icon instantly turns into a Control Panel icon and when u open it u get a giant…
ok weird one doom II secret levels guide for anyone who missed them like i did: 1, in MAP15, look for the secret exit, it's tucked away, sooo a guide or careful exploration helps. 2. that takes u to MAP31, a Wolfenstein 3D themed level. 3. MAP31 has another…
mac tip that blew my mind: 1. Hold teh Option key. 2. Click a menu bar icon or open an app menu. 3. Watch items change or extra details appear. Option clicking Wi Fi shows network details. Option clicking Bluetooth shows device addresses and more info. In…
ok so learned from an old IT guy: Ctrl+Shift+Esc goes straight to Task Manager, he also showed me the Startup tab (Startup apps on Windows 11) where you can disable programs that launch at boot, and teh "Startup impact" column. my laptop boots noticeably…
