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.
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.
You forget how long sites took to load over 33.6k, and how limited your options were for email before Gmail became popular. Free email plans were measured in megabytes, and you could only send like 200k worth of attachments per message.
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I’d argue it had reached its prime. Websites were just websites then, not data harvesting machines.
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.
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You forget how long sites took to load over 33.6k, and how limited your options were for email before Gmail became popular. Free email plans were measured in megabytes, and you could only send like 200k worth of attachments per message.
The bottleneck was your internet speed back then, now it’s your CPU.
Plenty of people had broadband, I was one of the first to get it in 1998. A whole 512Kbit.
I was so sure it was some ancient linux distro, still seeded by some university for what ever reason, but no.
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