Hide ” easter eggs (surprises) in the software code they create is a true tradition among developers. But these secrets are sometimes so well kept that no one discovers them. This is what almost happened to one of those famous easter eggs hidden in Windows 1.0, launched in 1985 – all the same.
Lucas Brooks, a Windows fan, whose passion is skimming code from old versions of Microsoft operating systems, has just found one particularly well hidden in the first version of Windows, 37 years after its release. exit.
Which version of @Windows is the first to include Easter eggs? Windows 3.0? Nope. What if I tell you there is an Easter egg in Windows 1.0 RTM? This is what I have recently discovered: pic.twitter.com/dbfcv4r7jj
—Lucas Brooks (@mswin_bat) March 18, 2022
This surprise, which takes the form of a congratulatory message and a list of credits from the developers who participated in the creation of Windows 1.0, was particularly well hidden.
Brooks unearthed it in a smiley, a file in bitmap format, integrated into the OS. But the most surprising thing is that the developer credits were encrypted and that the tool used by Brooks to decipher them did not yet exist when Microsoft released its OS.
Moreover, this Easter Egg hid another surprise, since among the credited names found there, a certain Gabe Newell stands out. The co-founder and CEO of Valve indeed began his career at Microsoft and contributed to the development of the first three versions of Windows.
Source: gaming pc