I didn’t know about this 8 years ago. I’m glad I found out about it today - as the father of a young child - because this post was incredibly moving to me.

Thanks for sharing.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I try to include rebeccapurple whenever I can in the web sites I build.

Some may consider it an Easter Egg. I consider it being a human, and a throwback to when computing was more of a community, and less of a competition.

I still have fond memories of the time when the Smashing Network was a thing.