Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Easter Egg in Firefox

Now you must be already trying out FF3, and yeah I know its pretty intelligent and cool… (slightly buggy though)

Did you ever think where did Isaac Asimov get the inspiration for I Robot?? Maybe he was using a prototype of FF (FF 1 pre-pre-pre-pre.....-pre-Alpha) and he came along this :

But did you find out a bot lurking in the FF3 software? It is actually very friendly and is made of plastic and calls itself ROBOT.

Just type in this in your address bar and interact(!) with the robot.

about:cache

about:robots

And if you click on the button named "TRY AGAIN" (which you can try only once again!!), the transformation of the label points out that out FFRobot is a bit touchy... See it yourself now in a new tab!

And about the Title : GORT! KLAATU BARADA NIKTO! It actually originates from a science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). The command(?) was used to stop the Goat.. er.. Gort from destroying good ol' Earth. (Wiki the term to read more...)

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