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In 2003, the World Wide Web was still in its infancy. Dial-up connections were still the default and YouTube, Facebook, and Gmail had yet to be invented.
I’d argue it had reached its prime. Websites were just websites then, not data harvesting machines.
Maybe the content reached its peak, but I’d argue we are in a better place now UX-wise.
Full disclosure: I type this from a network running pihole. Flashing banner ads to other people’s blogs were definitely better than todays adverts — and I’m looking at you, most recipe sites.
Nononono, UX is fucking terrible at the moment, if you said this somewhere like 10-15 years ago I would probably agree with you, but everything is designed to serve ads and be as functionless as possible these days.
You’re just visiting shit sites. It’s on you.
2003 was also littered with browser toolbars, animated gif ads, scam links, popups, adware, viruses and worms, and purple apes. gotta go back another 10 years to get to the ‘websites were just websites’ era.
Oh, so the stuff that is built into the browser and social media apps now instead of requiring you to use an add on bar.
The big issue in 2003 was all the viruses and pop-ups, which is largely a thing of the past. Not that viruses don’t exist anymore, but working at a college help desk in that era… it was bad. People had so many viruses and they would pop-up ads non-stop when the system was just sitting there.
Yea, infancy? Been using it for at least 6 years by then, it’s hardly infancy.
Were dial-up connections default still? I had been on cable for two years by then.
A Matrix fan film, Fanimatrix.
With a limited budget of just $800, nearly half of which was spent on a leather jacket
Lol
