Dropbox Easter Egg?

http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=45299&replies=22

by earbitscom • 15 years ago

107 25 15 years ago

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gburt• 15 years ago

For those not on Mac OS, it pops up a window that shows you all the Dropbox founders (and maybe some other engineers or something) and then sends a message about how they love working on Dropbox, and then some platitudes like "be yourself" and "love thy neighbor"... all animated between scenes, etc. like old Demo Scene stuff.

loganlinn2• 15 years ago

Also says something like "shoutout to AAPL GOOG MSFT :)"

njonsson• 15 years ago

There’s an irreverent wagging tongue in there, too.

   greetings

       to

  AAPL    GOOG

   :)  :P  :)

      MSFT

Was it prophetic of iCloud and Google Drive??

eridius• 15 years ago

The animation looks like bog-standard CoreImage effects.

devtesla• 15 years ago

A good thing, it means that this Easter egg takes up the least amount of space possible :p.

sp332• 15 years ago

Quit complaining about awesome things built into your OS :)

petercooper• 15 years ago

It only seems to work once so make sure you wait and watch the animation. I was going to record it to put on YouTube but couldn't make it happen any more times :-(

adamlafave• 15 years ago

image of the ending: http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/5455/screenshot20110930at857....

pud• 15 years ago

Here's a video screencast I just made of it:

http://youtu.be/Yxz6D83Ljp0?hd=1

kbd• 15 years ago

I love the homage to the Win 95 easter egg.

davidandgoliath2• 15 years ago

Interesting choice of music Pud -- re: skillet -- https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Skillet_(band...

johnx123-up• 15 years ago

  Who are these guys, a warez group? :D - gorillasocks

Found at above YouTube link:-)

thestoicjester• 15 years ago

Neat. I'm pretty sure that text at the beginning is a reference to a similar easter egg from an old version of windows (95 maybe?).

d_r• 15 years ago

I remember this as well. Found a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFclEc4sCUo

jwco• 15 years ago

Tom Hoover is Drew's fraternity bro, MIT '05 Course 6 classmate, and Bit 9 co-worker prior to Dropbox taking off.

He also installed Gentoo on my old laptop so I could take a Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics.

cowperson0982• 15 years ago

Anyone else suddenly reminded of that Windows 95 easter egg?

WalterGR• 15 years ago

Yes, other people were reminded of that. Search the comments for the word "Windows". (Ctrl+F or Apple+F in your web browser.)

cowperson0982• 15 years ago

i sped read gud.

matth• 15 years ago

I stumbled upon another well-known Dropbox easter egg last week: http://duzour.tumblr.com/post/10499147971/dropbox-is-so-awes...

power78• 15 years ago

I hope you don't mean the "grab a snickers" wording. That is not an Easter egg.

kulpreet• 15 years ago

Looks to me like someone was having a little too much fun playing around with CoreImage effects :)

ckeck• 15 years ago

Kind of reminds me of the Quake 2 easter egg / hidden room after the final boss (forward to about 2:55)

http://youtu.be/xCuTQ0pVQQQ

davidandgoliath2• 15 years ago

Anyone else find it awkward that the post is by a user with no other posts? Releasing your own easter eggs is kind of lame :)

benwerd• 15 years ago

I find it weird that so many easter eggs turn out to be the credits for a piece of software. Shouldn't that stuff be proudly displayed front and center?

Dropbox Easter Egg?

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