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[–] query@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago (11 children)

In 2003, the World Wide Web was still in its infancy. Dial-up connections were still the default and YouTube, Facebook, and Gmail had yet to be invented.

I'd argue it had reached its prime. Websites were just websites then, not data harvesting machines.

[–] whynotzoidberg@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe the content reached its peak, but I’d argue we are in a better place now UX-wise.

Full disclosure: I type this from a network running pihole. Flashing banner ads to other people’s blogs were definitely better than todays adverts — and I’m looking at you, most recipe sites.

[–] verysoft@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nononono, UX is fucking terrible at the moment, if you said this somewhere like 10-15 years ago I would probably agree with you, but everything is designed to serve ads and be as functionless as possible these days.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You're just visiting shit sites. It's on you.

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