You forgot about blockchain and NFTs.
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AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de 8 months ago
Things to add to your product when you want to look hip and trendy, but dont have any real ideas how to make your product better:
1990s: visitor counter 1995: Popups 2000s: flash intros 2005: stock photography 2010: local weather widget 2015: share to social media widgets 2020: fullsize 4k background stock videos 2023: AI assistant
Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Remember all those IE toolbars?
hglman@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I got enough installed once to fill the whole screen.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ugh…please don’t remind me.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I miss guest books tbh
AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de 8 months ago
They would be abused by spam bots in an instant, even before you could write your own “welcome to my guestbook” post.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 8 months ago
So you’ve never had one of those bot blocking capcha things?
lud@lemm.ee 8 months ago
And yet Microsoft added a weather (and bullshit) widget to windows in like 2020
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 8 months ago
I suppose many people were already using a third-party Aero widget for weather forecast since Windows 7.
I know I did.
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
visitor counter
I actually liked those.
flash intros
These could be used to create right atmosphere.
local weather widget
Back then I hated those, but maybe showing local weather on desktop is not such a bad thing.
share to social media widgets
Hate. Hate. Hate.
neutron@thelemmy.club 8 months ago
It really grinds my gears. Why does my bank insist on installing an app to approve transactions, and why does that app have a huge background video playing every time i open it? It really should consist of an MFA code generator.
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 8 months ago
2015: share to social media widgets on porn sites
havocpants@lemm.ee 8 months ago
1995: animated gifs, <marquee>, guest books, site rings!
Twig@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
“Under Construction” GIF
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I’m not sure if you remember, but site rings were what you used instead of Google. They were useful.
And I’ve seen some guest books with lots of people at some point in my childhood, but about half a year after that everybody firmly chose in favor of hierarchical boards.
And I don’t share that hate for <marquee>, it served the purpose of showing you a long line in a small space, implicitly saying that it’s secondary temporary information, a bit like on TV.
And what’s wrong with animated GIFs, animation is nice.