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See it though the lens of 2005 not 2024. Design standards where different, the reaction of users to banner ads or spam was not the same, SEO was still nascent i
by manquer 2y ago
See it though the lens of 2005 not 2024. Design standards where different, the reaction of users to banner ads or spam was not the same, SEO was still nascent industry, websites designed to game the engine was very small issue if it existed at all, every website looked like that at the point in time.
Here is how Yahoo still very much juggernaut in 2005 looked https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/yahoo-2005 https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/yahoo-2005 for context.
- IshKebab 2y agoYeah but Yahoo's home page was also notoriously spammy in 2005. Nobody was choosing to use Yahoo by then; they were living on unsophisticated users that wouldn't switch (read: your mum). There were plenty of spam sites like this even in 2005.
- manquer 2y agoGmail launched in April 2005, getting an invite was not easy for most of 2005. Gtalk was couple of years out . There weren’t many options for Yahoo services like mail and chat let alone other things yahoo was doing in 2005 yet .
- IshKebab 2y agoHotmail and ISP hosted email were still more popular than Yahoo email well before 2005. I'm not exactly sure why that's relevant anyway.