Years ago I worked at the BBC and while I rarely got to do anything audience-facing, I was allowed to indulge a smol pet-project while building the developer portal.
The website itself is locked behind a staff-only login, but my nonsense is buried within the stock banner photo that anyone can access — try clicking the laptop screen...
OH MY GOD
This brings me so much joy. The amount of effort for something cool and has no discernable business value, its just fantastic
brb, hacking the bbc to make the you-know-what it can generate fully playable
alcjksdnjkln that's amazing oh my god. i wonder how many people/if anyone found it naturally
the tag on my share wasnt kidding i showed this to my dad and it made him so happy
I don't think the saving was me, I think that's your browser being Helpful
Wild!! Such a fun little secret, actually quite inspiring to try this stuff with other stock images :D
As someone who is currently learning web development through class in my computer programming course, this absolutely broke my brain. Like, I was thinking about how crazy one could get with the tools available...but that is one of the most impressive things I have seen with web design. I am really going to have to figure out how this was done!
This came about because the original stock photo had the most garishly-highlighted dummy code on it and it was very distracting — we had to replace it with something, so while this might seem like a lot of effort for no value most managers would recognise, a good chunk of that effort was going to have to happen anyway.
Also: it pleases me greatly that they've clearly updated this page at least once since I left and they apparently chose to leave my silly easter egg in along with all the code samples. I suppose really I should refresh it a few times and see if they added any.
Ohmigawd, one of the defaults is The Hitchhiker's Guide text based adventure game
