Back in the Netscape 3 or 4 days there was a bug that allowed Java applets to remain resident after the user had left the page. An ILM engineer (possibly jokin

Back in the Netscape 3 or 4 days there was a bug that allowed Java applets to remain resident after the user had left the page. An ILM engineer (possibly joking) told me that a clever sod used that bug plus an early porn site to set up a distributed renderfarm.