The activation method for a rather ancient Easter egg, hidden deep within the ROMs of beige Apple Power Mac G3 computers, has been uncovered. Self-confessed "combined Apple/Linux/Windows geek" Doug Brown published a blog on Tuesday, discussing how he rediscovered the 'hidden dev team' Easter egg on a lazy Sunday. There was no known documented way of displaying this Easter egg in the Finder (Apple desktop). However, thanks to deeper detective work, some programming knowledge, and the help of friends, Brown eventually found and shared the method of activating this significant Easter egg. It is pretty easy, when you know how.
The PowerMac G3 computers were the mainstay of Apple computer-reliant businesses in the late 90s – until everything went pastel translucent with the introduction of the iMac line. As a reprographics worker at the time, I owned a couple of beige G3 machines for home use, and remember them fondly, moving up from Mac OS 7.5.3 through to 9.x. I also remember lots of software having fun Easter eggs that could be activated. That was quite high-octane Mac computing fun at the time, and this would be at least five years ahead of YouTube being a thing, for example. The Easter eggs I remember most clearly were conjured up by holding various modifier keys while selecting various menu items.
