uBlock Origin for Microsoft Edge

Re:uBlock Origin for Microsoft Edge by gnud on Sunday December 11, 2016 @05:50PM (#13153900)

How about we let all the useless noise die? I mean the sites here, not the ads.

I have fond memories of the 'old' internet, where web sites existed because someone cared, not because someone wanted to sell ad space. Maybe I have selective memory, though.

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Re:uBlock Origin for Microsoft Edge by brownbat on Sunday December 11, 2016 @06:32PM (#13154190)

Yeah, I have fond memories of that era, and of pulling postcardware down from BBS's.

Search was pretty awful, so I guess I'm glad ads funded Google.

The "Cool Site of the Day" archives give a good idea of what was online back then:

http://www.coolsiteoftheday.com/cgi-bin/stillcool.pl?month=0...

The oldest active site plugged by "Cool Site of the Day" is "The Froggy Page."

http://www.frogsonice.com/froggy/

The only other one from Aug '94 that seems pretty close to original was a site dedicated to documenting thoughts of festival-goers at Woodstock '94:

http://www.well.com/woodstock/

Hrm, maybe we are a little better off... but there is some charm in pages from that era. Even though it's not conventional modern design, it's like outsider art. You can see people's passion, just doing what they care about.

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Re:uBlock Origin for Microsoft Edge by wjossey on Sunday December 11, 2016 @05:58PM (#13153949)

I remember popups, punch-the-monkeys, and junk on the internet long ago. Things have become more pervasive, but I think our use has also dramatically gone up.

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