When I say Easter eggs you may think I’m referring to those brightly and lovingly colored young fowl who were boiled alive (sort of). I’m not… nor am I referring to their plastic cousins (not by blood) who are usually a bright solid color and filled with chocolate.
I’m referring to virtual Easter eggs… hidden messages or features in a movie, DVD, computer program or other of various media. The term is a parallel to the so-called “Easter egg hunt” of today.
Most computer-learned-folk have encountered these little hidden gems before. You’re at work and a co-worker clutches some scribblings he got off the so-called internet the previous night… 
he blurts out a certain word for you to type in some obscure area of a Microsoft Office application… and then instructs you to click a nondescript area of the screen while holding down a couple specific keys… and presto, you’re playing a crude version of Spy Hunter that features the names of the Microsoft programmers of that application.
Since the advent of DVDs virtual Easter eggs have flourished. The DVD format has allowed for the very easy tucking away of virtual goodies in hundreds of home movies.
Although, even though virtual Easter eggs are in the digital world… the real world can have “virtual-style” Easter eggs, too. For instance, I was just in Blockbuster yesterday having my wife of almost four years put on my account there… and the associate looked on her computer at my account and said casually with my wife standing there… “I see there’s a [insert ex-girlfriend's name here] still on your account… would you like me to remove her?” All I could do was laugh, and my wife had to translate for the associate that the laugh meant to indeed remove the relational artifact from my Blockbuster account.
And in the spirit of Easter eggs I have put one in this post somewhere. 
Some more popular web sites devoted to Easter Eggs: