wellll, i think i first discovered adblockers about 2004 or 2005, i may have missed it
man, idk about you but everspawning popup windows made me pretty damn hostile
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also... gah, yeah i vaguely remember seeing it once or twice, oh, they were the best of times, they were the worst of times
no really, all worst, you should be reminded of how HTTP did not have a resume feature back then, and dialup was still the dominant thing until about 2007
also, this was the first thing that came to mind when i saw that image