Oh man, I was just coming here to say that. I seem to remember first hearing about these "lifters" in highschool, so that would have been late 1990s. But that

Oh man, I was just coming here to say that. I seem to remember first hearing about these "lifters" in highschool, so that would have been late 1990s. But that recollection is based solely on remembering the dumb friend I had who thought it would be a good idea to try to make one, not knowing anything about high voltage electricity. Luckily, we were also too distracted by video games to go dumpster diving for a CRT or microwave transformer.