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one million checkboxes/chessboards, https://t.co/rXQU7beXZU, https://eieio.games, etc. the internet can still be fun! alum recurse, jane street

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Aug 29, 2024
At the height of One Million Checkboxes's popularity I thought I'd been hacked. A few hours later I was tearing up, extraordinarily proud of some brilliant teens. A thread about my favorite story fro...
SummaryThe creator of One Million Checkboxes shares their favorite story from the viral project: discovering that brilliant teens had secretly encoded messages in binary using the checkboxes themselves, creating a hidden Discord community and generating creative ASCII art and visual tricks on the site.31 tweets4 min read