Video games are so damn full of Easter eggs ( as Cracked has extensively covered ) that they kind of rewire your brain. Long after you've turned off your console and stepped into the real world, you find yourself wondering if there's any cool shit hidden in your car's dashboard, or in your work printer, or in the exceedingly dull spreadsheet you're paid to stare at between 9 and 5 every day. The answer, of course, is ... yes.

6 Google Chrome's "No Connection" Page Is A Playable Minigame

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If you use Google Chrome as your browser, you've probably seen this a million times:

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Literally a million times, if you have Comcast

That's the error page Chrome gives you when it can't connect to the internet, as you might have gathered from the words "Unable to connect to the Internet" up there (someone alert the AP Style Guide police). As you stared at that page for minutes while desperately plugging and unplugging your router, you might have wondered what was up with that lonely T-Rex hanging out above the words. Well, the next time you see that dino with his tiny, useless arms, do what he couldn't do and press the space bar. This will happen:

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This is better than any other Toy Story video game so far.

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Yep, Google knows how much it sucks when you have to spend a single moment away from your porn and memes, so they provided a fun offline minigame in Chrome called T-Rex Runner. The game features a tyrannosaurus running across a desert, avoiding dangerously overgrown cacti and pterodactyl until you miss a jump and he goes extinct. Play long enough, and it will turn into night -- both in the game and outside your window. Soon you'll be like, "The internet? What's that?"

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Tiny T-Rex won't "like" your ex-wife's Facebook statuses. Tiny T-Rex is a real friend.

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Yes, it's kind of simple, but it beats waiting around for your network to reconnect or, god forbid, going outside. And remember: You have to press the space bar to start the game. Maybe write that down somewhere, because you'll feel like an idiot when you forget how to do it and try to Google the answer without a connection.