Checking out the source code of a web page isn’t normally a “fun” experience. Most often, your goal is to get the name of a file or to figure out how the site performed some HTML or CSS magic. But every once in a very long while you can find a surprise, even a delightful one, waiting in the source code. As shown in Figure 1, I came across one such surprise the other day while viewing source on a page from The Guardian.

Screenshot of the source code of The Guardian newspaper web page showing a developer want ad written in ASCII art
Figure 1—A want ad buried in the HTML source of The Guardian newspaper web page.