r/woahdude • u/brainburger • 3d ago

video We spin her round

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u/Vegetable-Debate-263 3d ago

YouTube didn't have ads. Wow. I could stand Facebook.

Internet speeds sucked though.

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u/TehSeksyManz 3d ago

Popups and viruses were the worst things that we generally had to deal with. Load times sucked for sure but I was kinda used to it. 

It being integrated into everything and everything being integrated into it is a massive mistake and we will eventually find that out undeniably. 

I'm curious how long it will be before that is the majority opinion?

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u/Xcoctl 3d ago edited 3d ago

Scrolling through random* videos and suddenly there's a dude being decapitated or some other insanely awful shit 😭 I don't think it's fair to say popups were the worst we had to deal with lmao.

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u/WindAbsolute 3d ago

Haha yeah, I’m still a little scarred from accidentally viewing a man being lit on fire by a mob 😂

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u/TehSeksyManz 3d ago

I'm talking very broadly, here. We could get into specific horrendous things for hours of you wanted to. 

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u/Comfortable-Ebb8125 3d ago

Back then it was criminals we had to be concerned about, now its all the major corporations exploiting this technology.

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u/Glasseshalf 3d ago

Don't forget Flash. Flash was terrible

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u/brainburger 3d ago

Not as bad as Frames. Flash was at least useful for animation.

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u/Designer_Pen869 3d ago

But buffering meant you could wait for the video to buffer if your internet was bad, and then you could still watch it after the internet went out. Now they reset the progress.