FBXL Social

True story: Back when I was a teenager, there was a program you could download that claimed to upload a new microcode to your CPU and it would let you use new instructions as if your CPU was a newer model.

Now today I'm sure there's a bunch of people who can tell immediately that it was either a scam or a lie, but back in the day everything was so miraculous on the technology front, who's to say what the next thing you could do wasn't downloading a better CPU? I mean, think of how absurd video game emulation was originally, or even MP3, being able to download some magic thing to make your CPU faster doesn't even seem that crazy. (Oh yeah, and minor miracles like ramdoubler, which compressed your memory -- and you might think "That's stupid" -- but Windows integrates that technology today, and we also had stuff like stacker which was stolen and made into doublespace in dos 6.22 which actually did work to make smaller hard drives larger)

Pretty sure though it didn't turn my 286 into a Pentium.