[wdr1]

View Source was there in even early versions of browers. Mosaic had it. And lynx had the ability to dump the raw HTML. Most people on the web at that point also knew you could just telnet to port 80.

I would go so far to say that viewing source was the way a lot of people learned. If you saw something on the web you couldn't figure out how to do, you'd view source to learn a new trick.

I also don't think it would be a big deal to have a joke like that in your web resume. Few outside of hardcore geeks were on the web. There was no LinkedIn. Recruiters didn't use the web. Executives didn't. It was unlikely your hiring manager did & if he did, he'd likely appreciate the humor. It's like hiding a joke in kernel module you wrote. If they're the kind of people looking there, they'll have an appreciation for it.

[spacecowboy_lon]

This is the time when you came in and could quickly scan the whats new on the internet menu on mosaic :-)