How bad are they?

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CH I think even your description breaks the forum rules. I don't want to read that, so please edit.

I was shocked several times, not by pervert adult content, but by tech tricks:

When a page is using something like <img src="a:/whatever.jpg"> then the floppy start making noise, very unexpected and shocking activity near you. Ratatata! (Esp. when there's no floppy in the drive, of course).

Then there was the "good old" con/con dos attack that used to freeze the machine. Also pretty shocking.

Sometimes popup are shocking too when they use the msie parameter "fullscreen=true". Not sure if this is still possible (guess not), but once (msie 5 or so) fullscreen meant: absolutely no borders or buttons. It was great to present things, but it was also abused.

One time I designed an Ad for a beer company: A fake BSOD, based on a fullscreen popup (that was looking pretty real!) and then, after a few seconds, the beer ad dropping in as an animated layer, kind of "don't worry, relax" etc. That was funny.