Remember when the web didn’t suck?

  • sgibson5150@slrpnk.net
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    7 months ago

    I can remember around 1999-2000 if you clicked the wrong thing in IE you’d get 50 popup windows with ads for porn. At least that’s behind us.

    • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Then you also had the sites that would trap you there, every time you clicked the back button it would just reload the page.

      • Dem Bosain
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        7 months ago

        Every single Microsoft site still does this.

      • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        I mean there are still websites that open themselves 10 times so you can’t click back out of them. I am curious as to what their end game is. Do they imagine we go “well damn can’t go back out of this page, might as well start living here now”

      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

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