In addition to hiding Easter Eggs in odd places in the operating system, Windows developers hid a lot of Easter Eggs in plain sight, so to speak. Of course I’m referring to the Screen Saver Easter Eggs.
Once the screen saver activates, you'll see the names of each of the volcanoes. Here is St. Helens.
Here is Ranier.
Here is Hood.
I’m not sure how many developers’ names appeared in this Easter Egg.
I let the screen saver run for quite some time and different names just kept on flying across the screen in a random order.
The names appeared on the screen long enough for you to read each one.
You can almost imagine an e-mail going out to all the developers asking them to send in the name of their favorite rock bands.
I’m not sure how many rock bands’ names appeared in this Easter Egg, but the screen saver just kept on pumping out names of bands—some that weren’t familiar and some that were very recognizable.
More often than not, if the band’s name included a color, the text would appear in that color.
Chances are that the same e-mail that asked the developers to submit the name of their favorite rock band also asked them to submit the name of their favorite beer.
When this screen saver is running, a bewildering array of beer names float over the screen. I counted close to 100 different beers before I lost track.
Ahh, my favorite!
Like the NT 3.51 screen saver Easter Egg, the NT 4.0 version contained literally hundreds of names.
Unlike the previous credit screen Easter Eggs, the screen saver versions must have been extremely rewarding in that each member of the team got to have an individual spotlight.
Of course, the names are easier to read if you disabled the Spin Style effect.
Once the screen saver activates, you just have to sit back and watch it. At random times and places, you’ll see a teapot appear as a pipe joint. Here you can see a single teapot.
While one teapot per image is the most typical rendition, occasionally, you’ll see more than one. Here I captured an image of two teapot joints.