It's always been this way. But advantages aren't always that obvious. In my case, it was just "don't reload the page while waiting for the server to respond" a

It's always been this way. But advantages aren't always that obvious. In my case, it was just "don't reload the page while waiting for the server to respond" as the servers were DDOSed on the first day they opened the appointments. Obvious to many programmers, not so obvious to the general public that you might lose your position in the queue if you reload the page and not wait for a proper error page before reloading. Another advantage was getting my PS5. I wrote a simple web scraper that just looked if the shops had any PS5 in stock and wrote that into a static RSS I uploaded to my webserver and stuck this into my regular RSS reader. Over the last year, this way I could provide myself and 3 friends/acquaintances the opportunity to get a PS5. Other people can build tables and shelves. I'm a programmer.