The MIT comma came about in 1993 as a one character hyperlink in a hidden feature in the nascent student web publication The Freshman Fishwrap, directing users to otherwise hidden web pages. Tucked by the period it was intended to be casually missed but caught easily enough to amuse some,.

# # # ####### #. . . . . . . . ######## #. . . , . . . . @ #. . . . . . . . ######## ######### Or maybe it was just a trapper in nethack...