Websites: Then vs Now
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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Ah yes. Before the dark times. When dragons lay sleeping.
spookedintownsville@lemmy.world 1 day ago
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 1 day ago
noice
trespasser69@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Who made this?
abbadon420@lemm.ee 23 hours ago
Since they’re talking about JQuery, I think that knowledge is lost to time.
spookedintownsville@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
There used to be a link at the bottom for who made it, but it appears to be missing now.
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
You are the millionth visitor to this site!! Click here to claim your prize now!Let’s not fool ourselves, adverts were always there and intrusive, remember those hotbars that your parents would have 100 of installed somehow? Sure things are worse, but they were never perfect.
Schal330@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sure, but we had Bonzi Buddy too. These days the best we can hope for is some AI that tells us to eat rocks.
_bcron_@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Also:
Endless redirects that keep you on the site when you click the back button and try to nope right out
riskable@programming.dev 1 day ago
Trying the back button to get out of an ad infestation? You get a new ad! Trying again? Believe or not, straight to another ad!
zerozaku@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It is always the Microsoft Help Center/Community answers
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Idk about chrome but ok Firefox you can right click to go backer
ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I would add that if isa News website, the 1000 words article is just a verbatim copy from Reuters.
I want more info about [something happening], not to read the same article with minimal information again and again.
ngn@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
humanity’s biggest mistake was javascript
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
One ring to bind them all…
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 day ago
Reeeeeaalllllllyyyy putting on the rose tinted goggles, here…
filcuk@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Yeah that’s not how I remember the early Internet.
More like gifs everywhere, wild colours, you have to have that fancy html marquee! And terrible layouts, because aligning divs is difficult.
Good timesHammocks4All@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Those mouse cursor tracers lol
hinterlufer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
don’t forget autoplay video and music
i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Why deal with float when you can use a table?
curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
divs were added in the late 90’s… that is not what I’d call early internet
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I remember clicking on a website and getting ABSOLUTELY BOMBSRDED WITH NEVERENDING POPUPS OF HARDCORE PORN PICS AND SOUND and my parents were behind me, and you just panic reboot the computer.
rmuk@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Are Temu the ones who say “pretend you’re a billionaire” or something but their ads always have the most bizarre, undesirable-looking, nasty, cheap, plastic things in them?
Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
“Shop like a billionaire”
“Uh, ok”
closes Temu app, calls Sotheby’s
Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 day ago
Yep. That’s the ones. Or really pornographic or absurd. Cause buying more makes you feel like you have control of your life when you can buy a new shirt that dissolves when you wash it because you can’t afford to take a day off to walk around a park.
Nangt3c@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And politically biased content… fuck you Reddit
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
Why aren’t you using unblock origin like a rational adult?
trespasser69@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
l use it
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Missed the half-dozen boilerplate SEO sites that scraped the most generic and unhelpful information possible that feature links to whatever barely tangential software or product they might be selling.
NutWrench@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think the best way to make the Internet less sh*tty is to get away from Google search.
I like the SearX search engine. It gives old-school, relevant search results, not google ranked ones.
It’s also spread out over many separate instances, so you can pick the one that best suits your search needs:
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I switched to DuckDuckGo a while back and even that was beneficial. I can always tell when I’m on a different machine and I forget to switch the default search… It’s wild how fast they’ve fallen.
These days I setup ollama with open webui to host my own ai. Then you can connect Searxng to that and have the AI search the web for you and return no nonsense results.
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ad-blocker dedectors
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buy crap you don’t needed
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Inrelevant information
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SO MANY ADS, INRELEVANT INFORMATION, TRACKERS
thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
It’s getting so hard to find outrelevant results these days.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Don’t forget cookie settings notifications and a pop up asking for you to subscribe to an email newsletter.
Halosheep@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Algorithms
Algorithms? On my website? It’s more likely than you think!
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 21 hours ago
But not needed.
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 day ago
For what is worth, I have yet to see a temu ad
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah but you get it all 1000 times faster and mum can still use the phone at the same time
serenissi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Apart from usual ubo, reader mode and friends trained eyes are very effective content filter. We all can glance on a search result page or an article and immediately know if it’s content or low effort craps.
Stay out of mainstream social media, stop consuming ‘feeds’. Stay in the realms of personal sites, blogs and sane link aggregators/rss to keep mental peace of not having to filter garbage with eyes everyday.
greencactus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think they forgot to mention ads
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 1 day ago
Can we please not destroy the word algorithm? It’s such a nice word…
generaledelsud@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s called ublock origin and no script and one other add-on I have on icecat that blocks third-party connections
nonailsleft@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Ok boomer
Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 day ago
“Inrelevant Information”? That’s unpossible english!
thisfro@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
I think most websites have better UI now. Sure not all of them, but generally they are more appealing and easy to navigate from any device.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 day ago
Man… Try saying that with a non standard size phone screen… Or the terrible UI to force you into downloading an app.
Can’t even check the balance on a Dave and busters card without a masters degree in computer science.
Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
inrilevant
grte@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Eh…This is a little rose coloured glasses. Anyone else remember the pre-adblock era of umpteen pop-up ads?
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 day ago
A crummy history of ads on the internet:
Starts out mostly used in formal fields and universities. Very usable!
Businesses get on board and start the horrible ad infestation, leading to scammers and popup hell duw to misuse of a feature.
Ad blockers start to reign in that shit, and the better browsers kill the popup infestation at the source. Pretty darn usable at this point, except for internet explorer.
Google, an ad company, decides to make a browser so they can do all the malicious advertising and tracking on the backend.
uBlock Origin is too effective at blocking the browser based tracking and advertising so google decided to do the manifest 3 or whatever that bullshit is called to openly force ads onto users.
Based on history, I expect chrome to die a slow death due to the backlash from the manifest crap, but could be wrong since people are apparently fine with ads being forced into streaming services.
Sergio@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
There were a couple years where businesses were “entering cyberspace” and still trying to figure it out. Mostly this involved static webpages, since they saw the web as a kind of yellow pages. i.e. a business’ web page was their ad.
It amazes me how accepting most people are of ads. I suspect Google’s going to win, and their ultimate contribution to humanity will be forcing ads into everything.
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think the difference is that there is not really a Netflix-without-the-ads alternative for the same price. And if you are willing to pay a bit more, well, you can just pay for the higher tier of Netflix without ads.
With browsers on the other hand, it’s all free with virtually no barrier to switching. So I think people will defect away a lot more quickly when a browser starts to worsen in quality (especially since Chrome doesn’t have Daddy Microsoft to force users to use it by default)
simple@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Not to mention the internet wasn’t as secure as it is now. There was lots of malicious code everywhere. Oh, and if you write a typo in any website’s name there was a 50/50 chance you’ll be redirected to porn.
riskable@programming.dev 1 day ago
There’s vastly more malicious code now than there was back then. Every company that has an online presence is constantly under attack. Constantly. There isn’t an IPv4 address that exists that isn’t scanned and have an attempt at hacking performed within seconds of being connected.
Not only that but today’s malicious code is much better at what it does with hundreds of amazing features and methods of branching out using different attack methods. Today’s malware is so good it updates itself very carefully/as secretly as possible so that some old compromised machine that no one thinks about anymore can become the next vector of attack inside your network.
All it takes is one active vulnerability
Keep all your shit up to date, people! When was the last time you checked your router to see if it had updates? Hmm‽
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It was such a time saver…
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Imagine my surprise when Spider-Man.com lead to marvels website but Xmen.com lead to porn
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I think this entire response thread is too young. Back when you connected to the Internet with 14.4k and 28k modems (mid to late 90’s), websites were as OP described. Simply put, there was no bandwidth for too much extra crap.
LouSlash@szmer.info 21 hours ago
I started using Internet in 2004 (as a school kid) so i didn’t actually experience modem Internet era, but still i miss it (i’m kind of nostalgia guy as well)
Especially in Poland, where for a long time there was only dial-up Internet connection with 3-minute impulse (where each one was kinda expensive at the time), so you wanted to open as many websites in this timeframe that interested you then disconnect
Rusty@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I remember using internet in late 90s and there were no ads, maybe OP means that period?
Rooskie91@discuss.online 1 day ago
Came here to say this. They make a joke about how many adds are on the Internet in an episode of Futurama that aired in 2000.