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Dropbox Easter Egg?

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

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

Found at above YouTube link:-)

I love the homage to the Win 95 easter egg.

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 :)

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.

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

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

   greetings

       to

  AAPL    GOOG

   :)  :P  :)

      MSFT

Was it prophetic of iCloud and Google Drive??

I think so. The whole thing had a very nostalgic feel to it.

The animation looks like bog-standard CoreImage effects.

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

Quit complaining about awesome things built into your OS :)

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.

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 :-(

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

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?).

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

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

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?

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

Anyone else suddenly reminded of that Windows 95 easter egg?

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

i sped read gud.

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

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

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