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The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old (torrentfreak.com)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

2003 was also littered with browser toolbars, animated gif ads, scam links, popups, adware, viruses and worms, and purple apes. gotta go back another 10 years to get to the 'websites were just websites' era.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Oh, so the stuff that is built into the browser and social media apps now instead of requiring you to use an add on bar.