This reminded me of the pre-Google days, when pornographers really loved the web. Porn sites were extremely effective at gaming search engines, so several of th

This reminded me of the pre-Google days, when pornographers really loved the web. Porn sites were extremely effective at gaming search engines, so several of the top-10 results for most search engines were usually porn. That sounds harmless, but popup blockers didn't exist yet (or they were unknown), and IE4 and IE5 had no problems letting popups spawn. Landing on one of these pages led to a potentially irreversible sea of porn popups, and a chance that your computer would be infected with a virus. Since this was pre-Google, odds are good that every popup window was profitable via ad platforms that paid per impression. Those were the days.