I've been hanging out on forums since I was a kid, and for as long as I can remember, I've kept seeing this GIF of a little bug crawling on the screen. It seems every forum of any decent size has at least one user with that avatar. Recently, I was googling something and ended up on freshports.org, where that very GIF was sitting right in the header.
That gave me the urge to add an easter egg featuring this GIF to my own website. What had I been working on before that? It no longer mattered: making easter eggs is always more fun! :) I put it together and tried it out. Looked pretty cool. Then I checked it on my phone. Hmm, a bit blurry. It would be nice to find a higher-resolution version...
And so began a hunt for the original that turned into a story with several unexpected twists. I had no idea how deep this rabbit hole would go.