Comments on: Typical website evolution

By: AkumetsuKun

AkumetsuKun — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:13:55 +0000

And we didn’t have no fancy mail programs, neither… We sent email by banging rocks on bare ethernet cables! To email addresses that required bang paths!

By: Graphjammin

Graphjammin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 02:32:33 +0000

And don’t forget an ad that turns into a pop-up when you (often accidentally) roll over it.

By: Henry

Henry — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:04:25 +0000

Worst ones are the ads that pop up when you scroll over certain words and you can’t just get rid of them easily You have to click the X. then when you move the mouse a new ad pops up. Has anyone else come across this type of site?

By: zarkosy

zarkosy — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:06:50 +0000

haha, yes! i love it, too, all the comments on youtube that complain about ads running before the video don’t apply to me. but when i tell them about firefox and adblock, they mark me as spam. that’s okay, let them suffer >:D

By: Ron Paul

Ron Paul — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:22:45 +0000

Internet’s been around since the 60s -_- and it got popular around the mid-90s.

By: Ron Paul

Ron Paul — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:21:15 +0000

Adblock Plus is an add on/extension for Firefox/Google Chrome that uses a blacklist of urls to block unwanted advertisements.

I think Opera has something similar, but I’m not sure.

By: Ron Paul

Ron Paul — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:18:35 +0000

Firefox + Adblock Plus

Google Chrome + Adblock Plus

By: Trin

Trin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:06:45 +0000

THERE WAS INTERNET IN 1996!??!

By: tyberius

tyberius — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:05:42 +0000

What’s this AdBlock you speak of? All I need is my trusty URL filter list for my trusty Opera browser and I’m all set

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:52:54 +0000

FireFox PWNs with Adblock Plus! I never have to see any ads! Even in some online games that have ads that say “this advertisement helps keep the game free” I see nothing but a blank box!

By: Meowface

Meowface — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:53:53 +0000

And it was 10 miles through snow all year round!

By: Forrest

Forrest — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:06:53 +0000

Maybe you should stop looking at porn…everyone knows it leads to uncontrollable pop-ups

By: Raine Dragon

Raine Dragon — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:36:43 +0000

…you forgot loud and annoying speaking ads in the 2010 section.

Less likely to give people seizures than most 1996 neon blinking homepages, but far more likely to cause one to go ‘GAH! my ears!’

Honestly though, I see less pop-ups these days than I did 10 years ago. Fewer people bother with them now that they have the technology to do interactive ads and such in the main page, AND so many people have popup blockers.

I’m actually a fan of polite adverting when it’s:
a. not talking to me
b. not blinking neon colors
c. not moving to cover content
d. ‘below the fold’ and not in a navigational are
e. not in a pop up
f. not containing any malware

I’ve seen some very neat things be done, and I’ve got no problem with simple ads that help to pay the cost for the sites I visit for free, especially when it’s for related things that I might be interested in.

By: zarchasmpgmr

zarchasmpgmr — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:35:16 +0000

And all those folks who created those crappy GeoCities and AngelFire web sites?

Today they are web designers, and screwing things up even more with Flash, using your CPU, disk, and memory without your permission

QED

By: bionelly

bionelly — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:17:12 +0000

There is exactly one site I go to where the popups get around my blocker somehow; otherwise I have no problem with them whatsoever. I do deal with regular ads, though, mostly because I like IE’s tab system better than Firefox’s and it’s an acceptable tradeoff for me. I do switch over to Firefox when I’m dealing with a site that has particularly annoying ads, though (especially ones with sound, ugh.)

By: tincan

tincan — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:18:20 +0000

adblock+ ftw~

By: Twentydragon

Twentydragon — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:26:01 +0000

*cough* Cheezburger *cough*

Seriously, guys. You don’t have enough ads already? Now how have to drop a full-screen Xfinity ad across my page every other time I click on something?

By: elle bee

elle bee — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:54:42 +0000

lol. <3 the old joke

By: elle bee

elle bee — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:52:49 +0000

where the f— have u been? mars?

By: elle bee

elle bee — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:49:42 +0000

all because of dialup! btw it still exists (just see my reply 2 yodragon).

By: elle bee

elle bee — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:47:25 +0000

don’t 4get some random ad that turns out is a video!

By: elle bee

elle bee — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:45:17 +0000

its even worse if u have dialup (i only do b/c i live in the middle of nowhere and high-speed internet isnt always available especially as u go out further DESPITE what hughesnet says).

By: coolios

coolios — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:08:56 +0000

You could always tell it was 1996 because every page took at least 5 mins to load.

By: tuttle88

tuttle88 — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:04:16 +0000

Wow I thought it was just my mother who still had problems with popups, apparently there are other people who don’t know how to use the internet.

By: buh

buh — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:21:04 +0000

also, those irritating “floaty letters” that followed the cursor,
-First generation L33t-speak. That all-too brief year or two when online text had lost regular spelling or punctuation rules, or CAPS LOCK but hadn’t yet deteriorated to barely literate 13 year olds trying to see how little of the keyboard they can actually use and still pretend their message is getting across
- emoticons to huge excess (why not?)
- and finally the all-important “I learned HTML by coding this website so it includes every single functionality HTML has no matter how unnecessary. See those six frames containing photos that are cut off except for 50×80 pixels of its top left corner? All hand-coded baby “

By: ron paul

ron paul — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:04:15 +0000

The OP has obviously never been online in 1996 -_-

Crappy animated gifs
Sign my guestbook
Email me
Webrings
Best viewed in IE4/Netscape
Under construction man
Punch the Monkey and win a free *insert something here*
Ugly/busy backgrounds

*It was basically Myspace without the YouTube videos and replace mp3 files with Real Player and Java*

By: Cera

Cera — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:47:01 +0000

Thank you, Adblock Plus.

By: Duskman

Duskman — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:34:01 +0000

Win

By: Timtim

Timtim — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:55:10 +0000

And the internet always made noises when you clicked on it.

By: Tipsy_the_Drunken_Fairy

Tipsy_the_Drunken_Fairy — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:44:02 +0000

If it wasn’t, I did a pretty good job of hallucinating it…

By: hlaode

hlaode — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:39:23 +0000

Use either chrome or firefox with adblock plus and noscript, or add the list at the following link to your host file on windows or linux.
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt

Either way you’ll hardly ever see an unwanted advertisement again. I keep everything blocked but projectwonderful because their ads are actually constructive.

One caveat, chrome’s adblock doesn’t really work because it loads the ads and then simply hides them.

By: dave

dave — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:33:27 +0000

i’ve got kapersky and it automatically removes any ads, BTW, am i the only one who’s never seen ads in youtube? i always see the “0:01 to skip ads” on the comments

By: Nash

Nash — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:31:35 +0000

Uh, 1996, GeoCities webpages etc…

- Blinking and scrolling text
- Background picture that doesn’t loop properly but has been set to do so anyway, usually a photo
- Text in a color marginally different from background
- Background MIDI music
- Random animated GIFs for no apparent reason
- “Cool” javascripts with popup dialog boxes
- General lack of any sort of style or aesthetics

Nostalgia is for people with poor memories.

By: stringman

stringman — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:22:52 +0000

I remember that! (I think.)

By: s1500

s1500 — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:36:23 +0000

Why yes, we did sonny. We used Windows 3.1 and NCSA Mosaic. Uphill, both ways.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:07:12 +0000

Do I even need to mention the Xfinity ad, that whites out the entire page…

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:05:57 +0000

So full of fail…too…many….jokes….

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:04:43 +0000

F*cking graphs, how do they work?

By: Maya

Maya — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:04:12 +0000

Was the internet even around in 1996?

By: fragiletesticle

fragiletesticle — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:07:16 +0000

even adblock cant do trick sometimes.so WTF is your comment about?

By: yodragon

yodragon — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:06:59 +0000

Boy that sure describes the cheezburger sites, used to be fun, now take a long time to load all the ads .

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:06:30 +0000

And there needs to be a talking or music ad, and the ones that pop up more when you close them.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:06:03 +0000

Why are you using those two if you don’t know what this graph is talking about?

By: murialita

murialita — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:32:59 +0000

The pop-up adds need to cover the entire screen. And text you are looking for needs to be about 2 lines only.

By: MixHa!

MixHa! — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:28:42 +0000

Mozzila Firefox + Ad block Plus = WTF is this graph about?

By: Will

Will — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:56:58 +0000

Wrong!!! 2010 should be alllllll ads

By: bkj216

bkj216 — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:47:11 +0000

Very Accurate

By: A Random Pooka

A Random Pooka — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:28:11 +0000

Replace most of those random ads with “Ads for Evony” and you’ve pretty much covered all gaming websites