Notepad Easter Egg

Published by: Codrut Nistor, in Tips & Tricks

April25th2008

Since Easter is close for a lot of people, I thought that giving you an Easter Egg can't be a bad idea. In fact, you don't even have to celebrate Easter these days, since the egg I am going to give you isn't quite related to the Christian celebration. In fact, it's about "a hidden message or feature in an application," known as an Easter Egg. Ooook...so let's reveal Notepad's dark secret, shall we?

Notepad

The screenshot above doesn't look right, don't you think? Well, some may consider this a bug, and not an Easter Egg, and they may even be right, but let's not fight over this, and see what happened...

1. Open Notepad.

2. Type "bush hid the facts"

3. Save the file, it doesn't really matter what file name are you going to use

4. Open the file again and contemplate the result...

Leaving the conspiracy theories aside, the US president doesn't have anything to do with this. In fact, you could try using something like "cats eat the mouse," and the result will be the same.

Pretty interesting, don't you think?