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Well that and high quality video. One and only one tangible benefit of this new web is better quality video. Everything else sucks as much or worse than in the

Well that and high quality video. One and only one tangible benefit of this new web is better quality video. Everything else sucks as much or worse than in the days of Altavista and punch the monkey ads.

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nl 6y ago
And browsers that don't crash all the time.
- narwally 6y ago
  And search is good now. But apart from the HD video, the search, the aqueducts, the roads, the education, the browsers that don't crash all the time, and the wine... what have the Romans ever done for us?
  - nl 6y ago
    Oh, and XMLHttpRequest and Websockets, so we don't have to rely on META REFRESH in hidden frames...
  - 1_player 6y ago
    > And search is good now. I disagree. Searching for keywords is practically impossible nowadays, with all smart AI-powered™ search engines that unhelpfully return results that are not relevant to your query. And SEO spam, which has killed the niche high signal-to-noise handcrafted websites for content aggregators.
  - abraxas 6y ago
    I never once had a browser crash on me in the nineties.
    - btilly 6y ago
      I used Netscape on a Mac in the 90s. I lost track of how many times I saw the spinning beachball of doom. The only solution for which was the power off and on again.
      - nl 6y ago
        Remember "popup spam" and then how enough windows would open that none would respond? I'm guessing anyone who didn't get browser crashes in the 90s was only browsing a couple of sites or something. Certainly anything before IE5.5 was crash city - in particular Netscape 2.0!
    - anthk 6y ago
      > I never once had a browser crash on me in the nineties. IE5-6 were a crashfest.
  - loulouxiv 6y ago
    Since 2-3 years, I saw a dramatic deterioration of search. Whenever I am looking for anything that is not very mainstream, I get pages and pages of irrelevant results / SEO hacking sites
  - tripzilch 6y ago
    Sorry, search used to be good, around ~15 years ago.
- laurent123456 6y ago
  And that you can resize without the browser reloading (very slowly) the URL.
- int_19h 6y ago
  Chrome still crashes all the time for me - in fact, it seems to be crashing more than it used to. It's just that now the crash is isolated to a particular tab.
imwillofficial 6y ago
I forgot about those! Hahaha good times

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nl 6y ago

And browsers that don't crash all the time.

narwally 6y ago
And search is good now. But apart from the HD video, the search, the aqueducts, the roads, the education, the browsers that don't crash all the time, and the wine... what have the Romans ever done for us?
- nl 6y ago
  Oh, and XMLHttpRequest and Websockets, so we don't have to rely on META REFRESH in hidden frames...
- 1_player 6y ago
  > And search is good now. I disagree. Searching for keywords is practically impossible nowadays, with all smart AI-powered™ search engines that unhelpfully return results that are not relevant to your query. And SEO spam, which has killed the niche high signal-to-noise handcrafted websites for content aggregators.
- abraxas 6y ago
  I never once had a browser crash on me in the nineties.
  - btilly 6y ago
    I used Netscape on a Mac in the 90s. I lost track of how many times I saw the spinning beachball of doom. The only solution for which was the power off and on again.
    - nl 6y ago
      Remember "popup spam" and then how enough windows would open that none would respond? I'm guessing anyone who didn't get browser crashes in the 90s was only browsing a couple of sites or something. Certainly anything before IE5.5 was crash city - in particular Netscape 2.0!
  - anthk 6y ago
    > I never once had a browser crash on me in the nineties. IE5-6 were a crashfest.
- loulouxiv 6y ago
  Since 2-3 years, I saw a dramatic deterioration of search. Whenever I am looking for anything that is not very mainstream, I get pages and pages of irrelevant results / SEO hacking sites
- tripzilch 6y ago
  Sorry, search used to be good, around ~15 years ago.
laurent123456 6y ago
And that you can resize without the browser reloading (very slowly) the URL.
int_19h 6y ago
Chrome still crashes all the time for me - in fact, it seems to be crashing more than it used to. It's just that now the crash is isolated to a particular tab.

imwillofficial 6y ago

I forgot about those! Hahaha good times