Easter eggs in the world of technology are tricks that cause an unexpected, and usually fun, energy in many programs and services. For example, if you copy-paste an incomprehensible string into Google Translate and request a translation from German to Filipino, you will hear a nice beep.
It is said that the first Easter egg was the code that revealed the creator of an extremely popular game on Atari (“Created by Warren Robinett.”) playing Adventure in 1979, when companies forbade programmers to sign their code, so that their competitors would not claim them.
To activate the Easter eggs that have been… a hit since then, one had to belong to the wider circle of developers in order to hear the key combination, the successive menu options or whatever trick the creator of the Easter egg had concocted to trigger it. Later, networks made the dissemination of Easter eggs easier and eeggs.com, the Easter Egg Archive, where thousands of “Easter eggs” in programs and online services are collected.
As for the "bit" we were talking about, eeggs.com says that should go to Google Translate and type
Then, you request the translation from German to Filipino. The icon with the speaker (Listen) turns into… Beatbox, from which you will hear the rhythm.
