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THE SECRET INSIDE ONE MILLION CHECKBOXES

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One Million Checkboxes was a website where users could check or uncheck boxes, with their actions affecting everyone. When the site became popular, a group of teenagers discovered a way to leave secret messages in the website's data by manipulating the checkboxes to form binary codes that spelled out URLs and even a QR code.