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by Robyn
Postscript: Back when I wrote this in 1999, my website was handcoded, as were all the websites of my interweb friends.
So it came that people would hide semi-secret messages in comment tags amongst the HTML. The message was invisible in the web browse, but would show up when the webpage source was viewed.
No one really advertised when they’d done a hidden message, but those in the know knew to check the source for the telltale <---comment tags---> that hide the messages.
At the time I was working as an HTML editor, so I spent much of the day staring at HTML. So I thought, why not write an entire piece in a comment tag? So that’s what this is all about.
Does it even work with newfangled blog software? We’ll see.