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[–] 84 points 1 year ago (11 children)

It was so sad you could not watch a 30 seconds ad to revive back then. No cosmetics to buy, nothing. Just an ugly snake running around.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What are you talking about? Ringtones were the original paid cosmetics!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Could you get ringtones on Nokia 3210/3310 ?

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Excellent point about ads. Yes I still remember when every internet site DID NOT have advertising

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Back then, websites didn't need to show ads. They just distributed adware. Those days are long gone...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    That shows a picture of a browser with a million search bars installed. This feels like it was more of a thing between 1998 and 2002. I'd say that wasn't early Internet, it was when it started to become mainstream.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I started on the internet in 1995 (demon Internet in the UK TAM account using slip) and the Web then was actually a very small part of what I did online. Yep the websites that were around rarely had ads. If they did they were part of a garish geocities page most likely.

    But I was more often on usenet (yes kids before it was used for paid piracy we did actually use it for it's original intent) and IRC (remembering the efnet/ircnet split). The Internet browser was just another app you used online.

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