Preply Prepared a Present for the Fans of 'Star Wars'
- Each language version contains thematic 'Easter egg' hidden - New functional features were implemented only during a day - The result of tutor search could be designed in fiction saga style now. Preply, Internet platform for searching local and online tutors of foreign languages, exact sciences, humanities and diverse hobbies, unveils a secret of thematic 'Easter egg' for 'Star Wars' saga specially. Joke is devoted to the seventh episode of 'Star Wars', which name is 'The Force Awakens'.
Delaware, US, December 21, 2015 (Newswire.com) - A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…These are well-known words for fans of famous creation by George Lucas, traditionally it was the beginning of each ‘Star Wars’ episode. Written by typical yellow font they have become both a mem and a brand for 40 years of fiction saga existance. Now the results of tutors search on Preply platform can be viewed in the same style.
One only needs to know a little secret, because this is not recorded service ability or simply said it's an ‘Easter egg'. To activate ‘Star Wars' view on Preply.com web-site at first you need to follow the page with available tutors list and then add to its URL address in address line of the browser the following ?starwars=latin_letters_or_figures>. For example, instead of http://preply.com/en/skype/english-tutors one could place http://preply.com/en/skype/english-tutors?starwars=WeLoveCinema
Idea to prepare such an unusual present for fans of really famous movie saga was proposed by our technical director Dmitriy Voloshin. At that moment the rest of the team members supported him and only for a day all the necessary functions have been made. One of the main advantage of any start-up is in this joke example, that is flexibility and possibility to make decisions quickly
Kiril Bigai, co-founder and CEO of Preply
After following new reference web page design will change as it is shown on the picture. And in a few seconds famous movie soundtrack starts. Under this design platform functions remain the same: among slowly showing tutors profiles one could click what he or she likes and learn more. Thematic ‘Easter egg’ is hidden in all language versions of Preply platform.
Kiril Bigai, co-founder and CEO of Preply, said: ‘Idea to prepare such an unusual present for fans of really famous movie saga was proposed by our technical director Dmitriy Voloshin. At that moment the rest of the team members supported him and only for a day all the necessary functions have been made. One of the main advantage of any start-up is in this joke example, that is flexibility and possibility to make decisions quickly'.
The story of ‘Star Wars' is as symbolic as it coincides with the beginning of the computer age in its modern sense. Everything started with a book in 1976, 20th Century Fox producers wanted to test whether it would succeed among the readers. The same year Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple, and Microsoft stopped to be a company of one client (MITS) and started to develop software for different systems.
As a result, having a budget of 11 mln, movie got more than 775 mln and actually saved dream factory from bankruptcy. All the following episodes succeeded commercially as well, but not more than it happened to the first one considering correlation between production cost and movie performance profit. It turned out to be 70 times more!
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