I've worked with a couple of programmers who tell me that a lot of code in today's computer software is bloated. It is bloated because most people work with the previous versions of software rather than starting over from scratch. Programmers will leave some code in rather than taking it out. They also tend to overwrite old code or ignore it altgether.
I've known more than one programmer who has shown me code that they wrote over ten years ago that doesn't do anything in the program. Also, programmers like to put extra things in once in a while. Sometimes they put stuff in for their own amusement (aka "easter eggs") and sometimes it is a way to demonstrate that their work is contained in the program.
Here's a link that talks about easter eggs in MS software programs.
The most famous one
is one called The Hall of Tortured Souls.
It works in old versions of Excel ('95).
1. Open a new
file.
2. Scroll down until you see row 95.
3. Click on the row 95 button, this highlights the whole row
4. Press tab, to move to the second column.
5. Now, move your mouse and click on help, THEN about Microsoft Excel
6. Press ctrl-alt-shift and click on the tech support button simultaneously.
7. A WINDOW WILL APPEAR,
TITLE: THE HALL OF TORTURED SOULS
You will see something freaky! it has a doom style format and you can walk all around the hall (using your arrow keys)...and on the sides of the walls are the names of the tortured souls....
8. NOW WALK UP THE STAIRS AND THEN COME BACK DOWN, FACE THE BLANK WALL AND THEN TYPE IN EXCELKFA.
This will open the blank wall to reveal another secret passage, walk through the passage and DO NOT fall off (this is the hard part!), when you get to the end, you will see something really, really eerie.... (This is REALLY there! I haven't been able to reach the end of this VERY narrow passage though.... - WILANT)
Since you likely don't have the old excel here are soem
pictures of this weird
backdoor:
![](http://egomania.nu/images/gates1.jpg)
![](http://egomania.nu/images/gates2.jpg)
![](http://egomania.nu/images/gates3.jpg)
from:
http://www.able2know.com/forums/about74.html