# The secret inside One Million Checkboxes | eieio.games

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## What Jamie wrote

I spent a few minutes looking at [One Million Checkboxes](https://onemillioncheckboxes.com) when it launched and thought it was a nifty piece of "social art" for the web. I dig this kind of oddball stuff. Keep the web weird and all that. But I didn’t give it much more thought. 

This article then dives down what some very fun hackers, and I’m using that term in the positive sense of folks that love playing with stuff, did with it. It is a delightful read and the kind of thing that warms my heart on the web.

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## Appears in

- [WT292: Weekly Thing 292 / Signal, Checkboxes, Hope](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/292/), Notable

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