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I first got the internet in early 2001. It was a different time then, the so-called dot-com bubble was in the process of bursting, and nobody but the porn sites knew how to make any money off the internet. Websites didn't run ads, they ran seizure-inducing gifs that they thought were ads, but were actually schemes by fly-by-night scam operations. It was lawless, more chaotic then, too. Napster, the real, original, Napster was hitting its stride. Ads, such as they were, were full-frontal attacks, pop-ups, pop-unders, sites that added themselves to your Favorites. Browsing the internet wasn't an excursion, it was a war you fought with your mouse, and your eyes were the casualties, as those ads often featured the worst kinds of porn.