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mleku | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 wellll, i think i first discovered adblockers about 2004 or 2005, i may have missed it

man, idk about you but everspawning popup windows made me pretty damn hostile
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mleku | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 also... gah, yeah i vaguely remember seeing it once or twice, oh, they were the best of times, they were the worst of times 

no really, all worst, you should be reminded of how HTTP did not have a resume feature back then, and dialup was still the dominant thing until about 2007
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mleku | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 also, this was the first thing that came to mind when i saw that image

https://youtu.be/8QjrBjdb2T8