Author of the original article here. It's now year 9 with the current todo/done file I have now. And I'm on line 50473, with a file size of 2.3 MB.

For sure. It actually reminded me of when I was first learning QuickBasic. Appending certain words to a hidden text file (I think via TSR?) on boot was how we would casually fill up the hard drives of the lab computers in our electronics class, driving the teacher back into his submarine CPO days and streams of curse words. Fortunately he took it in stride and got us back...