The Internet Operating System Has An Easter Egg
By runner • Sep 6th, 2008 • Category: ChromeBox, Tips & Tricks
Google Chrome has an intriguing easter egg inside, that has been quickly discovered. Is it simply a bit of harmless fun or a symbol with deeper meaning?
Typing about:internets into the omnibox calls up this screensaver with 3d pipes snaking their way into an ever more deeply locked grid.
Screenshot of the Google Chrome Easter Egg
Surely you remember this screensaver running on old Windows machines — does anyone have it running still?
The first joke obviously is the tongue in cheek use of the phrase about:internets; it seems to say:here are the hidden tubes traversed by Google Chrome as it pulls data from the innards of the Web.
In reality, there must be a deeper joke. Google must be using this application that was so prevalent on old Windows machines to hint, less-than-subtly, that we are headed away from the operating systems of yore into a shiny Chrome future.
runner is obsessed with computers, lives on the Web, loves all things Google and has eyes that sparkle in Chrome's reflection.
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I would have just figured it dealt with the humor in Ted Steven’s quote that the Internet consisted of a ’series of tubes’. Nothing deeper. I could be wrong however.
Thanks, Ted. I didn’t make the connection and I am sure you are right; your idea is too elegant to be wrong