Over the summer this year, developer Nolen Royalty made a website that was One Million Checkboxes. The idea was that there were a million checkboxes on the page, and if someeone changed the state of a box, it was changed for everyone.

The site got picked up pretty quickly on several mainstream media outlets, which led to an interesting exercise in urgent optimization. However, the thing that really made me smile — a lot — was a story about a bunch of intrepid teens.

You can read the story, or spend a little under ten minutes to watch Nolen tell it. Either way, I don’t want to spoil it, because it’s such a great journey.