Nerds love in-jokes. And who can blame them? Coding is a long, arduous and labyrinthine process that is never really over. You don't exactly finish building a website, you just get it up and running and then constantly maintain it, bolstering it with new features as the marketplace changes - and because you want to keep up with your competitors. Every so often, you want to blow off some steam. That's why so many of these hidden web pages and easter eggs exist. It's because the people who make them get bored, and wanna make something funny to show to their friends, and which fellow geeks might one day dig around and find. One of our favourite (and definitely geekiest) examples is the long-running saga of The Book Of Mozilla. To access it all you need to do is enter the url "about:mozilla" if you're using a Netscape or Firefox browser, or head here if you're more the Internet Explorer or Chrome type. Nobody knows who okayed these things, or even for sure who wrote them, but for a certain mindset, they are absolutely hilarious. Or scary. Take your pick. Written in the style of apocalyptic texts like the Biblical Book Of Revelations, there's no actual Book Of Mozilla that exists, but this page purports to quote excerpts from it. What they actually do is, in a roundabout tongue-in-cheek fashion, chronicle Firefox's battle for supremacy in the browser market with the likes of Internet Explorer. With each new Mozilla update a new chapter is added, reflecting the current state of Firefox's market share. Incredible geeky, but pretty funny, too.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
