{"id":687,"date":"2018-10-14T07:21:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T11:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/langa.com\/?p=687"},"modified":"2018-10-10T13:29:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T17:29:22","slug":"have-you-played-the-hidden-text-adventure-game-in-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/langa.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/14\/have-you-played-the-hidden-text-adventure-game-in-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you played the hidden text-adventure game in Chrome?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yup, it’s yet another “easter egg<\/a>” hidden inside Chrome, this one recently-discovered: A classic 1980’s-style, text-based adventure game, of the sort from the early days of computing!<\/p>\n

Graphics? GRAPHICS? We don’t need no steenking graphics!<\/p>\n

Just look at the text around the blue G:<\/p>\n

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See for yourself: Open the Developer’s Tools (under the “More Tools” menu; or click Ctrl+Shift+I); then search for “text adventure” in the main search box, and then hit Control+Shift+J.<\/p>\n

For fuller info and more on how to access, see “Recently discovered Google easter egg is a browser-based text adventure game<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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Permalink: https:\/\/wp.me\/paaiox-b5<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Reply? Questions? Use the Comment box at the bottom of the page, or click CONTACT<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yup, it’s yet another “easter egg” hidden inside Chrome, this one recently-discovered: A classic 1980’s-style, text-based adventure game, of the sort from the early days of computing! Graphics? GRAPHICS? We don’t need no steenking graphics! Just look at the text around the blue G: See for yourself: Open the Developer’s Tools (under the “More Tools”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,8,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-site","category-humor","category-misc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaiox-b5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1012,"url":"https:\/\/langa.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/13\/interesting-site-freelivetranscript\/","url_meta":{"origin":687,"position":0},"title":"Interesting site: FreeLiveTranscript","author":"Fred Langa","date":"2018-11-13","format":false,"excerpt":"FreeLiveTranscript.com is an open-sourced, browser-based, speech-to-text application that creates \"live transcripts of speech on the web, that can be displayed (and edited) in real-time on a big screen, or watched on anybody's personal device.\" It's not really meant for personal speech-to-text\/dictation --- you can use it for that, but there\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Interesting Site"","block_context":{"text":"Interesting Site","link":"https:\/\/langa.com\/index.php\/category\/interesting-site\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/langa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/freelivetranscript.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/langa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/freelivetranscript.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/langa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/freelivetranscript.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/langa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/freelivetranscript.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":483,"url":"https:\/\/langa.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/25\/native-voice-to-text-can-you-here-mi-noun\/","url_meta":{"origin":687,"position":1},"title":"Native voice-to-text: Can you here mi noun?","author":"Fred Langa","date":"2018-09-25","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm again experimenting with voice-to-text transcription. 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