I sure hope it's a while before smells come to the browser. I'm annoyed enough by autoplaying audio, although now that I think about it, it seems not to happen much at all these days.

"smells come to the browser"

That little pit in the border of your laptop screen near the camera could be both a puffer and a mic pick up! I'm not sure what would be behind it but I'll be putting on a full noddy suit before I do maint. on your lappie, having noted the piece of tape over it. I'm not sure what would end up trapped inside the shell over time but I suspect both of "BC".

(noddy suit: NBC suit - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_suit)

>although now that I think about it, it seems not to happen much at all these days.

Thank you Mozilla!

Imagine getting rickrolled with the smell of rotting pig.

Don't worry, you'll be protected by the HP firmware. It'll detect that you're out of butyl compounds even though the scent requires none, refuse to spray the scent, and automatically place an order for you.

The military does that. The USS Trayer is a ship disaster simulator. "Suddenly, we're on a pier, the Trayer rising above us. We're indoors, but a gentle breeze carries the distinctive tang of the sea. Gulls caw somewhere overhead, and waves lap between the pier and the hull." It looks and smells like a real ship, but it's indoors in North Chicago, at the Navy's training center.

The army version, a section of a Third World city: "From the control center AFSOC can observe and change everything from lighting to sounds and smells. “They can simulate the smell of a bakery right down to burning cars or rotting meat.” The US military has several facilities like that.

Don’t you actually need something that smells like burning car though? I really wonder how you’d create that artificially.

Burning rubber, oil, plastic, and leather probably do most of it.

Disney ride was soarin' https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soarin%27

A bit of short fiction (not mine) from 2007, on recreating experiences for those who are stuck at home: https://everything2.com/title/We+control+the+algorithms+for+....