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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 w
by 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 agoOh, 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 agoI never once had a browser crash on me in the nineties.
- btilly 6y agoI 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 agoRemember "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 agoSince 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 agoSorry, search used to be good, around ~15 years ago.