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I miss the era of the internet with random games on every website (lemmy.world)
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[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Like 1986?

Because in the 90s population ads were REALLY bad. You'd open a page and 30 new windows would open up with ads, and closing each one caused 3 more to open, and you eventually just had to turn off the fucking computer.

And this was on dial-up, so they also destroyed your bandwidth.

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