• Engywuck@lemm.eeOP
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    1 year ago

    Again, the meme is not about the internet in 2000s. It is just about people sharing out of fu vs. “creators” wanting to monetize every little shit.

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      1 year ago

      It’s just such a common misconception that there was no ads in the ‘old Internet’, that’s all I was pointing out. There seems to be a nostalgic false memory that Internet back then didn’t have ads which is hilarious if you were there to see what it was like

        • JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Yeah, because if anything is better than granular data harvesting, it was ActiveX scripts wreaking havoc on your machine just by opening a webpage, disguised as ads.