This is the earliest Easter egg found in Windows 1.0 and 2.X

Windows is a complex piece of software, with hundreds of thousands of lines of code. Developers at Microsoft and other companies sometimes take pleasure in putting Easter eggs into their products to reward curious users and enthusiasts for their efforts to learn more.

Hiding secret messages in programs and operating systems is not a new tradition. For example, Windows 3.0 displays the developer list after you minimize all apps and type win30, then quickly press F3 and Backspace. Now we know about Microsoft's earlier Easter egg offerings. Lucas Brooks, a "Windows newbie," discovered a list of developer points in the first version of Windows released in 1985.

Windows 1.0 RTM contains an encrypted developer list in a bitmap file (an image with a smiley face). Currently, the keystroke that calls up the list is unknown, so Lucas Brooks had to reverse engineer the files and find the encrypted data. Interestingly, the enthusiast said that in 1985 it would have been impossible to decrypt the file as the required tools did not exist.

The Smiling Face of Windows 1.0

The list of Windows 1.0 developers mentions Steam CEO Gabe Newell. Gabe worked at Microsoft from 1983 to 1996, helping to create Windows 1.0 and later. Unfortunately, the Easter eggs found in Windows 1.0 provide no information about Half-Life 3, so fans will need to keep looking elsewhere.

Easter eggs were moved from the original Windows 1.0 RTM release to subsequent releases. You can do this in Windows

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