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Google easter eggs
- stingraycharles 17y agoWoa there! They embedded an entire flight sim in Google Earth ? That's a lot of work and pretty impressive for an easter egg, even when coming from Google! I wonder how they justify the effort put into those things.. 20 percent time perhaps ?
- amalcon 17y agoThere was a flight simulator hidden in MS Excel 97 as well, which makes even less sense. The only thing that sort of rationalizes it is that it's a stripped-down version of MS Flight Simulator.
- olliesaunders 17y ago"The simulator was originally inserted as an easter egg but has since become one of the official features of the programme."
- stingraycharles 17y agoYeah well, when you have a flight sim in your program, you almost have to do something useful with it, not ? I just wonder where they got the time to build it in the first place. As far as i know, it's not like Google had a flight sim in their portfolio before.
- snprbob86 17y agoThe early versions weren't so much of a flight simulator as a first person camera with plane-like controls and trivial physics. I'm sure they had a first person camera already for debugging and then just stuck a couple force calculations on top just for fun. For anyone who has done a 3D video game or simulation before, F=M*A level newtonian physics can be implemented in < 1 hour.
- raphar 17y agoRecursion egg rocks!!!!! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=832185 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=832185
- kierank 17y agoI'm going to get downvoted for saying this but this article is clearly diggbait.
- stanleydrew 17y agoI can't seem to get "about:internets" to work in chrome on any os. Anyone else having any luck?
- windsurfer 17y agoYou need to have the "pipes" screensaver installed.