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I would like to know what Easter eggs are hiding in Stack Overflow, and all the other Stack Exchange sites.

I love Easter eggs and I love Stack Overflow, so adding even more is a good idea in my opinion, what do you think?

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Ok I just found my favorite one, head over to https://stackexchange.com/about/team -> some images have roll-overs with animated gif's.

They are hilarious!

Editor note: the above link is broken, the company decided to remove that page. However, most animations have been preserved in this answer. (Execute the code block there to see.)

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    Most team members have those animations by now - thanks for finding this! :)
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Jun 26, 2012 at 5:52
  • ZOMG Michael Pryor's is the best EVER!!!!! what a legend.
    – Anonymous Type
    Commented Jun 26, 2012 at 6:08
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    I have a semi-serious quesiton (I KNOW THIS IS A COMMENT) can we add Jeff's photo to this link - urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=GEEK
    – Anonymous Type
    Commented Jun 26, 2012 at 6:15
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One easter egg coming up:

Binary Easter Egg

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    Nice. Took me second to figure it out.
    – Joel
    Commented Aug 23, 2009 at 21:46
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    For those who care, it says "Easter Egg" :)
    – Sampson
    Commented Aug 23, 2009 at 22:11
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    Actually, it says "easter egg" (no caps)
    – Alexandros
    Commented May 31, 2011 at 9:36
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Here's what you might call an easter egg:

If you go to any sample newsletter, e.g. https://stackexchange.com/newsletters/newsletter?site=stackoverflow.com, some of the links at the bottom will lead you to ... let's say, quite peculiar YouTube videos, if I may make that judgment that without having watched them all the way until the end:

Unsubscribe from this newsletter or change your email preferences by visiting your subscriptions page on stackexchange.com.

Questions? Comments? Let us know on our feedback site. If you no longer want to receive mail from Stack Exchange, unsubscribe from all stackexchange.com emails.

As of sometime between now and when this was originally posted, the link above was removed from YouTube. Here's the new, correct link from the current newsletter page for your enjoyment.

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    The unsubscribe link going to Trolololo is actually rather...evil
    – Zelda
    Commented Mar 9, 2012 at 3:05
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    You didn't watch them all to the end??? You gotta watch them all to the end! Otherwise, you'll never know how to unsubscribe...
    – Shog9 Mod
    Commented Jun 21, 2012 at 3:24
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Maybe there are... they just haven't been found? Isn't that the whole point of an easter egg?

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    Maybe he feels sharing is caring?
    – BinaryMisfit
    Commented Aug 23, 2009 at 21:29
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It is possible to hide easter-eggs in user posts by using HTML comments. Like in this one. I wonder if it is possible to search Stack Exchange for those...

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  • Well that's more of a less-known feature of markdown, but think it can fit here as well. Thanks!
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Nov 18, 2020 at 8:11
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I once tried to open https://stackoverflow.com/wp-admin and https://stackoverflow.com/wp-login to see what happens.

I noticed they redirect you to a random 3 hour completely dummy video on youtube. But I think it's not working now. Too bad :(

That was hilarious

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    That wasn't meant as an Easter Egg. It was to frustrate bots and script kiddies. See here for some details.
    – S.L. Barth is on codidact.com
    Commented Apr 25, 2018 at 13:18

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