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Excel 97 secretly contained a 3D flight simulator

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Because compiling endless financial reports is soul-crushing, developers built their own escape hatch. If you opened a specific worksheet in Excel '97, pressed F5, and clicked a few obscure buttons, the spreadsheet transformed into a psychedelic purple 3D flight simulator complete with a monolith displaying developers' names. It remains the most unhinged Easter egg ever hidden in enterprise accounting software.

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