Remember when the web didn’t suck?

  • sgibson5150@slrpnk.netEnglish
    96·
    2 months ago

    I can remember around 1999-2000 if you clicked the wrong thing in IE you’d get 50 popup windows with ads for porn. At least that’s behind us.

    • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      2 months ago

      Then you also had the sites that would trap you there, every time you clicked the back button it would just reload the page.

      • iAvicenna@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        2 months ago

        I mean there are still websites that open themselves 10 times so you can’t click back out of them. I am curious as to what their end game is. Do they imagine we go “well damn can’t go back out of this page, might as well start living here now”

      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        <script> function openNewWindow() {

          window.open("https://this.site.com", "_blank");

  newWindow.moveTo(0, 0);
  
  newWindow.resizeTo(screen.width, screen.height);

}

window.onbeforeunload = function() {
  openNewWindow();
};

        </script>

    • Konstant@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      I remember installing Windows XP and when connecting it to the internet and open the browser, a bunch of random popups started showing. I hadn’t click any website, just open the browser on a clean install. It was unbelievable. A friend who was there made reminded me of this for quite some time jokingly.