Comment on Bots ruined an once useful website with fake credentials that lead to nothing

• can@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Come to think of it I think I may have heard about it from a magazine.

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I kinda miss PC magazines. But then again, I kinda like not wasting paper more

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    • NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Remember Demo discs though?

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      • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hell yeah I do.

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    • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I still sometimes read them digitally from the library.

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• Cyyy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  damn, I didn’t expected BugMeBot being that old. Interesting.

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, early 2000s was a great time for the internet. Tons of people making things and putting them on the internet for free or at the very worst, with a tiny ad from a banner ring at the bottom. Even early Facebook was awesome

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    • Cyyy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      when i was still in school, we always were allowed to used the computers from time to time to browse the internet. and websites had ads, hut it usually was 1-2 banners… it didn’t feel that extreme overloaded and i even looked at them. I thought they were uninteresting, but I didn’t care much. this days i have a allergic reacting against all ads. going online without a adblock feels like websites slap me with a huge block of wood or stone directly into my face over and over and over… it’s crazy.

      i really can’t understand how this days people can still not go crazy without a adblocker.

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      • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, ads were fine until they started being invasive.

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