Pop Up Blockers.
It's 2024 and popup ads are everywhere despite being legislated away in the early 00's.
Fuck ads, and fuck pop up ads more.
this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2024
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Livejournal. It still exists but is pretty dead save for Russian people. I made the best friends of my life on there, and writing there was more helpful than any therapy.
Blank html Pages only containing pages of blue links to various SWF(flash) movies. Purple if I watched them.
I miss when normies and politicians were scared and confused by it so they left it alone. When computers in general required some skill and knowledge to use so there was a natural barrier to entry.
No AJAX
Legend of the Red Dragon
The broadness of the internet.. Now its like 12 main websites and they are all time stealing scams with tedious or generic content
Not having to click some accept data mining cookie banner before I can see the site.
The lack of monetisation and the irrelevant ads that did exist were sat on the website itself..
Active forums. everything seems to be a subreddit now
There was no google. I used dogpile..
Stumbleupon and curated bookmark lists.. The fact I had hundreds of sites bookmarked and categorised.
Dodgy assed chatrooms.. Asl.. Creepy question In hindsight.
I dont miss under construction banners, color clashing sites and low resolutions
Anonymity
I miss listening to ska mp3s on Winamp while playing Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon on that new IMDb website and pausing briefly to chat with a friend through one of my many IM accounts logged into Trillian.
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mushroom! mushroom!
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Argh, Snake a snake. Snake a snake. OOOOO, It's a snake!
narwhals, narwhals, swimming in the ocean...
Poooork is the meat of kings...
It’s a snaaaake!
Link pages. Just people putting their organised bookmarks online.
Internet directories. All the topics organised like a library.
I don't know if anyone told you this but 1900hotdog.com is run by ex-cracked people like Sean baby and Brockway. Their podcast is a jam. Go read the articles.
I just miss when you could search for things on search engines and find what you were looking for. I miss when putting operators, quotes, and parentheses actually changed the search results.
I miss when AI wasn’t shoved into EVERYTHING. I miss when the internet was usable to be honest.
No SPAM. No ads. Only people with an IQ of above 100.
IQ is a bad measure of intelligence or decency of a human being. Academic advantage doesn't automatically make you smart, or nice to be around for that matter.
Agreed. And I only meant this symbolically. "The net was better off when nearly all people there had a minimum of education and discipline." - Better?
Back then, if someone produced stupid ideas like they pop up today by the millions a day in X and Facebook, you got properly booed, and people learned to avoid this one source of trouble.
I didnt start really using social media until I was 15 (2015) (not including when I briefly used FB when I was 13 and having an account on the official Warrior Cats message boards when I was ~12), but even then it seems like people were a lot more chatty? I feel like I got more positive comments on my shitty art from that time than I sometimes do nowadays.
And also the fact that so many people nowadays share their full name how they look irl. I'd much rather keep that shit private unless it's someone I trust and seems especially dangerous nowadays, and now there's a worrying amount of minors doing it.
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