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lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

there were so many fucking ads online in the late 90s

and you couldn’t block them because they were either served from the same domain or used the same plugin as the content and it was an all-or-nothing thing

all those goddamn blinking gifs with “click here” and “you’re our millionth visitor”, and the pop-ups, and the flash bars with “shoot the ducks”…

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cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
a lot of those came up in the late 90s early 2000s though. the early 90s were mostly just text based pages.

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- lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  yeah, but as soon as the web actually enough traffic to take off the ads were everywhere. before 1996 it was basically just a prototype.
  
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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
that was 3.0

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- lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  considering that “web 2.0” is widely accepted to be “the social web”, where the focus was on user contribution and interoperability… no.
  
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  - HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    maybe i’m getting my html versions mixed up with my buzzwords
    
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    lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    yeah i think that’s about the same time. there are so many versions at the same time that it gets confusing
    
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