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I've gotten the same reactions by showing alert boxes and changing background / font colors using JavaScript.

• isaacdl 12y ago
  I agree! That was actually my first introduction to programming - copying snippets of JS that popped alert boxes to impress my friends in elementary school. More recently, I've explained the whole idea of web programming to non-developers by showing them the developer tools/JavaScript console in the browser, and how you can use it to edit CSS styles and run random bits of JS that do cool things to the current page. It cool to see people "get it" -- the reaction is generally something like "wow...is that it??"