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How a Group of Teenagers Pranked 'One Million Checkboxes'
After game developer Nolen Royalty launched his short-lived viral site "One Million Checkboxes" in June. (Any visitor could check or uncheck a box in the grid — which would change how it displayed for every other visitor to the site, in near real-time.) "Within days there were half a milli...
After game developer Nolen Royalty launched his short-lived viral site "One Million Checkboxes" in June. "But he also explains how what happened next was even more amazing: He'd stored the state of his one million checkboxes in a million-bit database — 125 kilobytes — and got a surprise after rewriting the backend in Go. "As I kid, I spent a lot of time doing dum stuff on the computer, and I didn't get into too much trouble when I, for example, repeatedly crashed my high school mail server.
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