[iCarrot]

A decade ago we have this niche vBulletin forum where members would self-publish news article regarding the hobby. vBulletin BBCode is pretty limited, but then the admin started to add more and more styling support via custom BBCode.

At one point we were able to create "interactive" content entirely in our heavily customized BBCode without a single line of JS, and this #target is one of the more used tricks.

[themodelplumber]

That sounds like a pretty cool BBCode hack (and ultra-permissive by the admin considering...admins), I'd like to see it in action in 10-years-ago form.

[thrashh]

I did a similar thing on my forum around 2005 but we even let members put CSS in their posts via BBCode… although it was rewritten, scoped and restricted.

But people made big “clubs” and then created these really cool semi-interactive posts using just CSS. It was really awesome what people can do.