I remember writing an "active desktop" page (the desktop was really just a fullscreen -minus taskbar- IE control) that had some green-and-black background and a

I remember writing an "active desktop" page (the desktop was really just a fullscreen -minus taskbar- IE control) that had some green-and-black background and assembly code scrolling at the side ala Terminator (the code was for some DOS VGA mode 13h effect i'd written) as it felt very hackerish to have a desktop like that. Around 1-2 days later i disable it since it was constantly eating all of my (200MHz Pentium) CPU time, visibly making everything feel slower :-P.