Mac OS 9 Easter Eggs

About the Finder - 6.3/10 with 625 votes
1. Hold down "Option"
2. While it is held down, go to the Apple Menu and choose "About the Finder."
3. This is the Apple Heaquarters in Cupertino, California.
-the trumpet
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Applescript Info Egg - 6.0/10 with 3 votes
Instructions for viewing this egg:
1. Open AppleScript
2. Go to the apple menu
==Egg 1==
1. Go to "About Script Editor"
2. A dialog box will appear. Hold down the control key, and click on the logo.
3. Some odd, out-of-placed text saying 'carbon... more

About the Mac OS 9 Team - 6.0/10 with 479 votes
This is a classic:

1. Hold down "Control"+"Option"+"Command"
2.Go to the Apple menu and choose "About the Mac OS 9 Team"
3. Enjoy!

(P.S. Macs Rule!)
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Finder Finds Apple.com! - 5.0/10 with 163 votes
I know of a Easter egg in Mac OS 9.xx that almost no one knows about and I actually won a contest for finding it(the price was Dreamweaver4 and I won cause not even the author behind the contest knowed about it).It is kind of fun and you have to be connected... more
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Middle of Nowhere - 4.9/10 with 145 votes
Go into the map control panel, type "middle" & click find. You will find that the location is in the south Atlantic between Africa & South America just north of Anartica. The location name is "Middle Of Nowhere."
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Quicktime Egg - 4.5/10 with 2 votes
Instructions for viewing this Egg:
1. Go to the apple menu
2. Go to "Control Panels"
3. Go to "Extensions Manager"
4. Go to the help menu
5. Select "Show Balloons"
6. Scroll down to the extension labeled "QuicktimeTM"
7. Move your mouse over it
8.... more
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Joy! In the Control Strip - 4.0/10 with 3 votes
First, you need to duplicate the control strip (otherwise, it will say that it is in use). Then open the copy with ResEdit. now open the resource type called sdev. Then open the ID=2 resource. The first line should say "Joy!"

other description:
Open... more
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Definition of Music According to Macintosh Quicktime - 2.1/10 with 16 votes
1. Go to the apple menu.
2. Go to "Control Panels".
3. Go to "Extensions Manager".
4. Go to the help menu and select "Show Balloons".
6. Scroll down to the extension labeled "QuicktimeTM Musical Instruments".
7. Move your mouse over it and it... more

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