Microsoft Excel's Hall of Tortured Souls

A remarkable easter egg from the Windows 95 era, fully anticipating what became of the world's most beautiful operating system.

The developers of Office 95 left an interesting little easteregg with a name which does seem a little unsettling. I am exploring this easteregg and showing it in this video.

Long-hidden Windows 95 easter egg revealed

You've visited Windows 95's Hall of Tortured Souls, but here's a far more charming easter egg revealed by one of the people who worked on Microsoft's all-conquering operating system nearly thirty years ago.

The procedure to find it is simple but blatantly unlikely—renaming a New Folder three times with what are essentially uncrackably-long passphrases—but it's always fun to know it was there all along waiting to be revealed. — Read the rest