Sure, coming across a site that does all is luckily not too easy.
At least I don't remember it being back when I raw-dogged the web.
Toolbars were a user choice and most weren't rootkits, so you could disable them from a standardized browser interface or like any other app on your system.
Can you do such a thing with the modern stuff on Chrome or vanilla Firefox?
Ahh, good ol' Download Accelerator Plus (DAP). Multi-segmented downloading with pause and resume capabilities meant the world on a 56k modem. 15 minutes just to download Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch as MP3.
You missed an opportunity to make that link never gonna give you up. I swear half the mp3s in the day were actually that one song. But that was more on KaZaA and Limewire, I guess...
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bonenode@piefed.social · 18 pts · 125d
Paradachshund@lemmy.today · 16 pts · 125d
Now we don't even need toolbars for this experience. The websites do it for us.
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 125d
This statement is hyperbole, back then was actual hell
unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 125d
Ads? Privacy popups? Newsletter popups? Autoplay self-resizing videos?
Sure, coming across a site that does all is luckily not too easy.
At least I don't remember it being back when I raw-dogged the web.
Toolbars were a user choice and most weren't rootkits, so you could disable them from a standardized browser interface or like any other app on your system.
Can you do such a thing with the modern stuff on Chrome or vanilla Firefox?
GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 125d
This is the ideal browser interface. You may not like it, but this is what peak malware looks like.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 125d
Got some cheats. Two Google’s and a few Yahoos.
They also skipped AltaVista and Infoseek which were fairly common.
PetoniousRex@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 125d
Looking at this makes me think of all the security risks. Which come to think might be the point. Sadness really.
adarza@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 125d
made me look over to the office door to see if it was the same as the one i've had up here for over twenty-five years..
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf · 4 pts · 125d
Gotta catch them all!
judgyweevil@feddit.it · 4 pts · 125d
Toolbars or malwares?
eldoom@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 125d
Is it odd that I can smell this picture? Smells kinda like warm plastic.
trublu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 125d
I can hear the incoming phone call as a buzz in the speakers before the handset rings.
RedSnt@feddit.dk · 3 pts · 125d
Ahh, good ol' Download Accelerator Plus (DAP). Multi-segmented downloading with pause and resume capabilities meant the world on a 56k modem. 15 minutes just to download Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch as MP3.
randamumaki@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 125d
You missed an opportunity to make that link never gonna give you up. I swear half the mp3s in the day were actually that one song. But that was more on KaZaA and Limewire, I guess...
RedSnt@feddit.dk · 1 pts · 125d
I'm not a monster!
WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social · 3 pts · 125d
How did you get this screenshot of my mom's laptop circa 2007?
twotonebax@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 125d
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xXXTeq06s4M