Thanks for taking one for the team and checking that out. I sure wasn't gonna

The quality of the internet is so low these days

I've been using ad blockers for so long that I forgot about these ridiculous click bait ads.

Thank you for taking that bullet for us!

Of course, the "while painting" was implied. I'm so embarrassed I didn't clue in immediately.

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Big foils propaganda at work.

Thank you. I was pondering why put foil on door knobs.

I mean... if you are like, home alone status, in a whole ass house with a bunch of doors... maybe covering the knobs in foil would make it so some kind of intruder makes more noise when opening doors, as they either handle the foil opening the door, or when removing the foil?

????

It kind of makes some sense?

This still happens on dodgy football streaming sites.

Then you also had the sites that would trap you there, every time you clicked the back button it would just reload the page.

At least that's behind us.

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Well, you could land on a bad site full of nasty ads or wind up downloading software that offered you the finest of malware or viruses.

And you could just not go to them, or not download sus programs or warez.

Now the sites and apps hunt you down and shove it in your face. They follow you, rat on you, sell your info, and constantly try to sell You stuff every page you land on.

Yeah, Old Internet wasn’t great, but it wasn’t institutionalized malice like we have today.

Wild that the original of this image edit was “remember when /b/ was good” back in 2005

There's less info now than a few years ago and it's harder to find. Web 2.0 has put most of the data and traffic into just a few hands. And as we can see with Twitter that can lead to a significant part of the Internet going to shit overnight.

Hell, most of us are here because of what reddit did overnight. It's certainly better than the age of web rings but we've entered a downturn.

In the late 80s and early 90s

Hold up there… HTLM wasn’t even invented until 1991 by Timothy Berners-Lee who then made the first web server, web browser, and web page. It was another two or three years before browsing the web became more common. Before then, the internet was very basic, consisted of a few simple services, and was typically only accessible via universities and large corporations.

Regular people often only had access to regional online services until national services like CompuServe, Prodigy, and AOL came along.

Right? Do you remember going to websites and your computer would yell out that you were watching porn? Ads would burst forth like you just won fucking Solitaire. Shit took forever to download, and if you lost connection in the middle, start over!

I guess if you started using the Internet after like 2008, when things really started to take off, you saw a golden hour. But it was a dangerous place in the early 2000s, although I learned a lot about how to unfuck computers in my quest for boobs as a teenager.

Alternatively the intruder will just be so confused they'll decide to break into another house instead of figuring out what the foil does

That's what I figured - pretty much any alarm system would be better, but could technically help you in a pinch

Knobs are common in politics. I'm not sure about doors.

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That's a reputable org.