Some Light Relief—View Source on Kevin's Life

The 5K Contest first ran in the year 2000. It's a new annual challenge for web developers and HTML gurus to create the most interesting web page in less than 5120 bytes. That's right, all HTML, scripts, image, style sheets, and any other associated files must collectively total less than 5 kilobytes in size and be entirely self-contained (no server-side processing).

The 5k competition was originally conceived in the fall of 1999 after an argument about the acceptable file size of a template for a project at work. The creator says, “It took a long time to actually get it organized because, back in those days, we all worked hard at our soul-destroying dot.com jobs and didn't have time for fun personal ...

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