Check out this ancient Windows 1.0 Easter egg featuring Gabe Newell
Hop in your time machine and rewind the clock to the days of Windows 1.0.
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It’s always fun to findWindows 11Easter eggs. But what if you were able to find a Windows1Easter egg? Because it looks like someone just did.
Over on Twitter,Lucas Brooksdisclosed a Windows 1.0 find: A list of the at-the-time Windows team (viaWinFuture). The list contains a little “congrats!” text bubble and even contains a particularly important name: “Gabe Newell.”
If Newell’s name rings a bell, it’s because he’s the guy leading Valve, the company behind Steam. For those of you who don’t know, early on in Newell’s career, he worked at Microsoft on some of the earliest versions of Windows. And his indirect ties to Microsoft still aren’t over. For proof, just check out howMicrosoft and Valve worked togetherto enhance gamers’Steam Deckexperience.
Which version of@Windowsis 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/dbfcv4r7jjWhich version of@Windowsis 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, 2022March 18, 2022
You’re going to have to take a peek at Lucas' Twitter thread for the full scoop on how the Easter egg was uncovered; it’s a real doozy of tech terminology talk for anyone who’s not familiar with the inner workings of ye olde Windows 1.0 or Windows innards in general. But still, anything that leads to this sort of discovery is worthy of chatter, even if the behind-the-scenes details may be a bit too in the weeds for average trivia enthusiasts to dig into.
If you want more deep-dive Windows lore, don’t forget that a couple ofreferences to Windows 9were also recently uncovered by data-digging cyber sleuths.
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