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My guess is they grew up with it like that. Us old fuckers privy to the Internet of the 90s and 00s, know what it should be.
Scrolling marquees, blinking text, background midi music, hit counters, guest books, and web rings?
Bring back hit counters
And guest books
And don't forget huge signatures with GIFs and all sorts of crap for your favourite forum.
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.
Well, it was also simple at the time. I guess growing up with the bs made us hate it, then they got gud, and kids don't care anymore today.
Now you just hit me with nostalgia. Yes, all of it.
Ah, yes! The days of composing websites in Notepad.
30 is old now?
True, but we're not old.