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I miss the era of the internet with random games on every website (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works

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[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

Most of those were actually malware that I stalled in your computer and infected the browser, not an actual ads.

Ads back then were mostly static banner ads that lived at the bottom of a website. They started getting worse in the early 2000s.