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Apr 15, 2022 · The first time “easter egg” was used in reference to something other than actual holiday-themed scavenger hunts occurred in 1980 when Steve Wright, the director of software development at Atari...
Apr 5, 2018 · After completing a specific sequence of moves, an “Adventure” player would stumble upon his name, in a message stating, “Created By Warren Robinett.”. This is known as the first Easter egg. What the movie doesn’t explain is that the first Easter egg arrived during a big moment in video game history.
An Easter egg is a message, image, or feature hidden in software, a video game, a film, or another — usually electronic — medium. The term used in this manner was coined around 1979 by Steve Wright, the then-Director of Software Development in the Atari Consumer Division, to describe a hidden message in the Atari video game Adventure, in ...
Mar 29, 2024 · The first discovered Easter egg appeared in the 1979 Atari VCS 2600 game Adventure, created by Warren Robinett. In those days, video-game creators received no individual credit for their work from Atari, so Robinett hid “Created by Warren Robinett” within a one- pixel gray dot on a gray background.
Apr 29, 2013 · I first heard the term "Easter egg hunt" (in the technical sense) at RCA, Camden, NJ, sometime between 1972 and 1974. To anyone familiar with the TV repairman's term its meaning was reasonably obvious -- more or less randomly searching for the location of a bug or function in a mass of undifferentiated code or hardware.
- The OED has this sense of Easter egg from 1987: 1987 Re: Does Set Startup work Anymore? in comp.sys.mac (Usenet newsgroup) 13 Nov., The Opt...
- A student of mine said that she'd heard that the origin of the term comes from the Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), which includes at least 3 inst...
- There are three terms: Easter egg , Easter egg hunt , and Easter egging . The third is likely the oldest, in technical use, as it was used by...
Dec 4, 2021 · The term “Easter egg” was coined to describe such an artifact in 1980, when Atari unknowingly released its Adventure console game with a hidden credit for one of its programmers, Warren Robinett.
Apr 14, 2017 · Write to Olivia B. Waxman at olivia.waxman@time.com. Easter eggs don't come from the Biblical story of Easter, but their origins are related to centuries of Christian tradition.
