• Fleppensteyn@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    To be fair, I only came online late 90s and all we had was Internet Explorer, no Adblock and a constant barrage of popups, ads and toolbar installers and even child porn. I remember downloading one song and having to close 20 windows.

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      1 year ago

      There were ad blockers even then, like “Web Washer”. Browser plugins/extensions weren’t invented yet so these tools were locally installed proxy servers with simple black/whitelists. Worked really well!