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  • The Macarena Easter Egg   πŸ£

    Are you familiar with the technology concept of an Easter Egg? It refers to a hidden message, secret section or level, such as in a video game, movie or music video, an unknown function, or other surprise that isn't apparent until you accidentally stumble upon it, or someone tells you about it. 

    Behold the *Define Macarena Easter Egg:

    This is another 'Don't just read it, do it!' moment...

    1. Open *Define in another Window
    2. Log into the Fiscal component
    3. Instead of entering D for *Define enter dpmac
    4. Hit enter and, heeeeeeeeeey macarena!  

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  • Snarky Tic-Tac-Toe   βŒβ•βŒβ•β­•

    That's right, folks. You can play a game on *Define: Tic-Tac-Toe!

    But not just any ol' Tic-Tac-Toe.
    Whichever engineer snuck this behind the scenes back in the mid 90s, they found a way to fit some snark into it, win, lose or draw! Play it and you'll see it! (it's a tiny bit addictive, fyi)

    1. Open *Define in another Window
    2. Log into the Fiscal component
    3. Instead of entering D for *Define enter dptic
    4. Hit enter and off you go!  
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To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before... FIZZBIN!
Yep, you never know what you're going to find in *Define, but clearly some software engineers back in the day were geeking out on Start Trek --Old School Star Trek! Some of y'all might not know about this one! It's a card game! 

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*Define has a Full-Scale Mail System - TxMail ΰͺœβ€βž΄ βœ‰ 

It's still active, though many don't know about it. This used to be THE way folks talked to each other!

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