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Then and now (i.imgflip.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Again, the meme is not about the internet in 2000s. It is just about people sharing out of fun vs. "creators" wanting to monetize every little shit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's just such a common misconception that there was no ads in the 'old Internet', that's all I was pointing out. There seems to be a nostalgic false memory that Internet back then didn't have ads which is hilarious if you were there to see what it was like

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ads are not the same thing as insanely granular data harvesting.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Yeah, because if anything is better than granular data harvesting, it was ActiveX scripts wreaking havoc on your machine just by opening a webpage, disguised as ads.