Intel once proposed a SATA video output on motherboards, so you could watch your disk’s bytes directly on a monitor. Here's a working prototype!

Did you know? @MyPayIndia used to have a gaming section where you could play a various assortment of games to earn more money, albeit it was slower than the traditional method. This phased out once people began hacking in them.

On some versions of Wyse 700 drivers for Windows 3.1, it was possible to see a menu option in the Program Manager with the text "F̲UCK YOU". Not many copies of the drivers with this menu option have remained and it was lost until very recently.

Starting today, the ants will have been unleashed on Windows 7.

The "Barbeque Chicken Alert" developer tool, mistakenly being pushed out in an update for Windows XP and Server 2003. It is still unknown what it is for.

For a brief period of time, images posted to the Microsoft Community Hub would have watermarks automatically added onto them.

Microsoft Professional was a piece of software that may have allowed you to be professional. Not sure though, still looking into this.👀

An early version of "title.wma" was found in the form of an OOBE walkthrough on Vimeo, uploaded by a former Microsoft employee.

In 1997, AOL rolled out a feature where you could read your e-mails with a text-to-speech feature. This was quickly pulled due to people using a Russian text string to emit a loud noise.

Windows XP Flattened Edition (2003)

Found: iOS developers quietly slipping in Android’s volume bar in internal builds because ‘it just looks better’

The "Pregnancy" button in Adobe Photoshop would have detected bellies in photographs and made them larger, but it was scrapped when the Undo button stopped working for it.

Z in 1997. It was made after a rich businessman (Eldon Mux) having a dream about another site called "X".

In 1998, Microsoft tested a 40-floppy install of Windows 98 that played a sound every time you swapped disks. Testers reportedly went insane by Disk 12.

UPDATE (10/11/2025): The man behind the live wallpaper reached out to us about our tweet, turns out the wallpaper was actually vent art. We didn’t realize that when we posted it, and we definitely didn’t mean to treat something personal like that lightly. We're sorry!

Before Ubuntu released in 2004, a June build of Ubuntu was discovered, showing a rejected name for it.

In the 15th of April, 2010 build of Android Gingerbread (codenamed Kraken at the time), a live wallpaper was set where Homer Simpson runs across the background.

An update for iOS 16.4 briefly included a changelog that mentioned only a horse before being replaced with the actual version notes.

In an update for the LTSC Release of Windows 10 21H2, There can be artifacts of letters missing from dialogs, here is a screenshot from a blog post talking about this bug.

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