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The internet is different, I hesitate to say worse. Yes advertising is constant, but it's not like the old internet was free of it. We had banners and bullshit
by voidfunc 2y ago
The internet is different, I hesitate to say worse. Yes advertising is constant, but it's not like the old internet was free of it. We had banners and bullshit galore.
The monetary model has changed for sure but that was inevitable.
The 90s internet was slow. Stuff like IRC and email are a product of their time. Stuff was designed to work on 28 or 56k modems. The lucky few had ISDN.
I don't miss the old internet that much. I miss some of the apps and the stripped down low bandwidth UX of stuff.
What I really miss is th era of native desktop applications that had a consistent look and feel.
- muwtyhg 2y ago> We had banners and bullshit galore. The problem now is not the visible aspect of advertising on the internet. It's the obsessive tracking and categorization of people to make advertising more effective that I'm upset with. There was no such apparatus in the 90s/00s. Most legitimate websites wouldn't be plastered with banner spam, but all legitimate websites now will attempt to track you.
- paulpauper 2y agobanners are way preferrable to the annoying video ads or ads that pretend to appear as content.