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There was a brief period of time where visiting a link felt like a new adventure. We take the simplicity of a "link" for granted today, probably because most li
by deckard1 9y ago
There was a brief period of time where visiting a link felt like a new adventure. We take the simplicity of a "link" for granted today, probably because most links are just clickbait now.
Eventually links turned into time-consuming traps of "under construction" animations and icons and popup advertising hell. But even then, the Internet truly felt like the wild west.
- ahtu123 9y agoI miss the diversity in web design back in the day. From blinking, colorful and seizure-inducing to very dark pages with little torch gifs. Weirdly enough every website now looks the same (ok maybe we have 3 archetypes of web design) even though the number of sites has grown exponentially for decades.
- yiyus 9y agoI remember web rings. There were some nice rabbit holes to get lost.