Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7

TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I was an adult during that time, and I don’t recall it being anywhere near as annoying. Well, except the TV and radio ads saying “…or visit our website at double-you double-you double-you dot Company dot com. Again, that’s double-you double-you double-you dot company dot com.”

  YMMV, but it didn’t get annoying until apps entered the picture and the only way to deal with certain companies was through their app.

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  • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Oh, I totally forgot the www thing. That was super annoying. Good riddance!

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    • IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The only one I didn’t hate was the jingle:

      “That’s F-R-E-E that spells free credit report dot com, baby”.

      😆

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  • SaraTonin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    youtu.be/qaNIJg9A9Kg

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    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Those were the days… :-)

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    My old brain still thought of site addresses as having www in them, but this post just made me realize that’s more uncommon than not to see it any more.

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    • IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m about that same age but am so glad we’ve largely abandoned the “www” for websites.

      On my personal project website, I have a custom listener setup to redirect people to “aarp.org” if they enter it with “www” instead of just the base domain.

      server {
          listen              443 ssl;
          http2		on;
          server_name         www.mydomain.xyz;
      
          ssl_certificate     /etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain.xyz/fullchain.pem;
          ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain.xyz/privkey.pem;
          ssl_dhparam         /etc/nginx/conf.d/tls/shared/dhparam.pem;
          ssl_protocols       TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;
          ssl_session_cache   shared:SSL:10m;
          ssl_session_timeout 15m;
        
          ...
          
          location ~* {
            return 301 https://aarp.org/;
          }
      }
      

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      • jwmgregory@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        that’s… a terrible idea for a portfolio site of any sort. why would you intentionally hamper accessibility? what if their company VPN automatically routes yoursite.org to www.yoursite.org? i personally wouldn’t spend the time spending out why i was looking at AARP, i’d just pass you over and not hire you, let alone reach out.

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• BanMe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think back then, they had a product that was ahead of its time, and just needed time for us to adapt to.*

  Now, they have a solution in search of a problem, and they don’t know what the good use cases are, so they’re just slapping it on like randomly and aggressively.

  • I hate the way we did though, and hope AI destroys the current corporate internet.

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  • Hedup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ve change to lemmy, now matrix. I’m doing my part.

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