Got a kick out of this

[Alan Karp]

I'm running through the sites I use to test SitePassword and ran into a problem, so I opened the developer's window.

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Alan Karp

[Kris Kowal]

Google was doing this in the mid-aughts, around the same time they ran a billboard for {first ten digit prime number in the mantissa of e}.com.