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minus-squareRefurbished Refurbisherlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down2·edit-210 months ago 10 FPS 160p streaming video if you were lucky enough to have blazing fast internet, usually requiring a RealPlayer or Quicktime browser plugin Adobe/Shockwave/Macromedia Flash having its tenticles in basically the whole internet Autoplaying MIDI in webpages Animated backgrounds Unencrypted communications being standard Whatever AOL tried to do Internet Explorer being standard due to its free inclusion in Windows But even then, Web 2.0 (starting with YouTube) still ruined the internet since corporations were able to take basically full control.
But even then, Web 2.0 (starting with YouTube) still ruined the internet since corporations were able to take basically full control.