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I remember angelfire, only because of the banner that was forced on every free site. And I think those sites loaded popups in the background. This was probably

by xyst 2y ago

I remember angelfire, only because of the banner that was forced on every free site. And I think those sites loaded popups in the background. This was probably back before tracking existed and was just used to pump various dotcom business traffic statistics. Then came the creation of pop up blockers.

timeon 2y ago
> Then came the creation of pop up blockers. There was one brief moment in time when pop up windows were generally seen as shady thing. Now they are back on most sites. Just not as separate window.