My middle school was right in the midst of a technology purge when I was in 7-8 grade (so around 11-13-ish?) and my friend and I found a bunch of towers chucked in a dumpster. Seeing as we lived within walking distance, we got as much as we could in to an old wagon and carted it to my house.
Did one of the towers catch fire? Absolutely. We also cobbled together a couple of towers with literally hundreds of megabytes of storage, probably something along the lines of 32MB of RAM, and all of the 16.8 million colors our CRTs could handle. I ran a PHP server for about two weeks on the brand new cable connection my bad begrudgingly paid for because everyone else needed the phone, and within that timespam my logs got spammed with hack attempts and I moved to some random DynDNS host and scrapped the server for parts.