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How a Group of Teenagers Pranked 'One Million Checkboxes'


In my XOXO post on Monday, I said that Nolen Royalty, the creator of One Million Checkboxes, had told “one of the wackiest i

In my XOXO post on Monday, I said that Nolen Royalty, the creator of One Million Checkboxes, had told “one of the wackiest internet nerd stories I’ve ever heard”. Well, Royalty has now put that story online, both in the form of a blog post and a YouTube video: I read and re-read my code, searching for how somebody could be stuffing strings into a database that should have just contained 0s and 1s.

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