For a brief, glorious moment, you could do weird things to Donald Trump’s website

The internet found a new way to amuse itself in the final hours of the presidential election cycle.

Basically, there was a glitch on the press release page of Donald Trump’s website. So whatever text you entered at the end of the URL, it would show up at the top of the page, like so:

Fun with URL hacking. https://t.co/UWU2r69DSL pic.twitter.com/KMdW0GQXQ6

— Andy Baio (@waxpancake) November 8, 2016

Why the heck was this happening? Basically, the URL of each press release ended with a date, so the page would pull the date and display it at the top of the page. But the site wasn’t checking to make sure that that URL included an actual date. (To be clear, this wasn’t making any permanent or publicly visible changes to the site — it only appeared to people who followed the link you shared.)

Okay this one actually fits tbh https://t.co/Zi7pH0mqRq pic.twitter.com/Yxi0TSf2JA

— Sean O’Kane (@sokane1) November 8, 2016

Naturally, this took off pretty quickly, leading the Trump campaign to disable it by removing the text at the top of the page, and eventually to just remove the press release archive entirely. Oh well — it was fun while it lasted. I guess we can all go back to worrying about the election results now.

Seriously, whoever made Donald Trump’s website should be ashamed of themselves. This is SO EMBARRASSING https://t.co/LiQ3s328Yu pic.twitter.com/bXG0mbesbv

— Shoshana Weissmann (@senatorshoshana) November 8, 2016