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Firefox 3 Easter Egg: the Robots have Arrived!
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June 18th, 2008
Firefox 3 hit the streets less than 24 hours ago, and a nifty little easter egg has already been uncovered. Simply type about:robots in the url bar and you’ll get this:
Oh no! They really are taking over!
I think my favorite bit is “Robots have seen things you people wouldn’t believe.” I wish they had elaborated on that a bit, as I would love to get inside the robot mind. Oh wait they don’t have minds. Or is it that they don’t have souls? I get confused.
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I did miss a reference to Isaac…
the first line is a tribute to isaac dude
:-) Thanks. I’m too much old school I guess. It seems that obvious sources don’t have to be mentioned anymore.
What a neat little easter egg.
the first line, isn’t one of Asimov’s rules of robotic?
funny stuff. I just did it and the text came in spanish (i have the spanish version of F3)
the second one is a blade runner reference and the fourth is futurama.
No idea about the third, gotta love them firefox robots!
The third line is from Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Ditto “Please do not press this button again”.
Just tried this out and another little funny thing is that when you click on ‘retry’ it then says ‘please do not click here again’ so of course, i clicked……ill let you all find out what happens next ;-)
“Your Plastic Pal Who’s Fun to Be With” is, I think, a reference to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
“And they have a plan.” is from the new Battlestar Galactica. :-)
Robots have shiny metal posteriors which should not be bitten.
Is this to do with bender
There’s a DTD with comments describing the source of each quote, type this as a URL:
chrome://browser/locale/aboutRobots.dtd
Found via exploring the source of about:robots …
Oh, after entering that URL, press CTRL-U to view source, or enter
view-source:chrome://browser/locale/aboutRobots.dtd