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Post by sloopjohnc on Jun 15, 2022 14:07:04 GMT
I don't know if anyone else had this come across any social media, but I thought it was really interesting to see how the top sites historically trended in dynamic bar graphs.
The first job where I really, really used my desktop for programs, apps, internet started in the mid '90s working at a medical journal. I remembering upgrading to a Power Mac because our young daughter got on the thing and graphics loaded so slowly. I got a 28,800 bit/s modem, which was good for a couple years until the 56,000 bit/s modem came out at the end of the decade.
I have lived in the heart of Silicon Valley my whole life - both sides of the Bay. A lot of my classmates at San Jose State graduated and went to work at tech companies like Nat'l Semiconductor, which were starting to see the advantage of communications in highly competitive markets.
One of the first real search engines, Excite, built a big campus, at that time, along the freeway in my hometown. By the time they finished it, they were bankrupt. That was at the time that Excite, Lycos, Magellan, Google and Yahoo, which had the early upper hand, were really fighting it out for dominance.
Anyway, I thought it was interesting and brings back some memories.
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Post by DarknessFish on Jun 15, 2022 14:42:57 GMT
Who the hell has been using Yahoo all that time? I think I used it once or twice in 1994. WTF? And where was Altavista in those early years, that was the search engine of choice before Google.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jun 15, 2022 14:50:58 GMT
Who the hell has been using Yahoo all that time? I think I used it once or twice in 1994. WTF? And where was Altavista in those early years, that was the search engine of choice before Google. Forgot Alta Vista, yeah I used it too. I was never a Yahoo fan either. I liked their sports sub-site, but I always thought the search function was kinda clunky. I also thought it was interesting to see the sites after the big three. I didn't know MySpace was that popular, that long. |
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Post by DarknessFish on Jun 15, 2022 14:56:53 GMT
I think I only clicked on myspace a handful of times, and probably half of those clicks after it was dead.
Interesting that facebook seems to be in a consistent decline now. Still large, but the creepy looking geezer must be worried.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jun 15, 2022 15:48:28 GMT
I think I only clicked on myspace a handful of times, and probably half of those clicks after it was dead. Interesting that facebook seems to be in a consistent decline now. Still large, but the creepy looking geezer must be worried. They are. Meta now runs high frequency TV ads trying to encourage the younger demographic how cool Facebook is. You can talk to my kids or your kids and find out the only reason to go to Facebook is to see what their dads and grandparents may post. They are long gone and ain't coming back. They're off on other social media and communication apps. It's a complete waste of money to market to a younger demographic and to market to them on TV - double whammy. You'd think one marketing person at Facebook would have told the ad agency and the company that. |
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jun 15, 2022 16:08:44 GMT
Yeah Facebook is finished in the long run. It seems to be an over 30/40 thing really and the 30 somethings I know don't use nowhere near as much as the over 40s do.
Myspace was great! I always thought Facebook was shit in comparison, mostly because it was very hard to connect with strangers. When Myspace was at its peak around 2005/6 it was great for meeting lasses (it was really the first big dating site) and connecting with local people over shared interests. It was a real free for all and I was a bit sad when Facebook took over. I'm sure a lot of people around my age have fond memories of Myspace.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jun 15, 2022 17:23:24 GMT
Yeah Facebook is finished in the long run. It seems to be an over 30/40 thing really and the 30 somethings I know don't use nowhere near as much as the over 40s do. Myspace was great! I always thought Facebook was shit in comparison, mostly because it was very hard to connect with strangers. When Myspace was at its peak around 2005/6 it was great for meeting lasses (it was really the first big dating site) and connecting with local people over shared interests. It was a real free for all and I was a bit sad when Facebook took over. I'm sure a lot of people around my age have fond memories of Myspace. I wonder what Tom's doing these days? While I didn't have a page, it gave people a lot of visual freedom in setting up theirs. But the graphic heavy ones were so slow to load, but you could tell they had fun creating them. |
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Post by Markus on Jun 15, 2022 17:45:30 GMT
I have a new unwritten rule now, that if i have to click on more than two things to get to page i just forget it. Fuck it. There's some sites, that have the usual consent shit, sign up for a newsletter, pop up advert, register AND starts playing a video that i don't want to watch. All before you can start reading what you wanted to in the first place. FUCK THAT. I genuinely do wonder what goes through marketing/site designers heads when they think people don't mind this.
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Post by oh oooh on Jun 15, 2022 18:02:43 GMT
The Rolling Stone site is the worst I know for that kind of thing - auto-streaming thumbnail videos, pop-up ads, page takes ages to load. It IS off-putting but of course they get a lot of revenue from running ads. But like you, I don't understand why they expect people to tolerate it.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jun 15, 2022 18:05:35 GMT
The Independent on my mobile is unreadable
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Post by Markus on Jun 15, 2022 18:35:29 GMT
Aye i'd love to know the views on ads per sale ratio (if it's possible even), compared to the likes of us, too many things to click on = not coming back again.
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Post by rayge on Jun 15, 2022 19:47:05 GMT
Don't any of you guys use an adblocker?
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Post by osgood on Jun 16, 2022 7:46:09 GMT
Who the hell has been using Yahoo all that time? I think I used it once or twice in 1994. WTF? And where was Altavista in those early years, that was the search engine of choice before Google. Yeah, according to the video yahoo was ahead of Google in 2010. Nothing to do with what I remember. |
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Post by cousinlou on Jun 16, 2022 8:07:10 GMT
I have a new unwritten rule now, that if i have to click on more than two things to get to page i just forget it. Fuck it. There's some sites, that have the usual consent shit, sign up for a newsletter, pop up advert, register AND starts playing a video that i don't want to watch. All before you can start reading what you wanted to in the first place. FUCK THAT. I genuinely do wonder what goes through marketing/site designers heads when they think people don't mind this.Probably the number of visitors proof them right. |
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Post by Markus on Jun 16, 2022 8:13:28 GMT
I have a new unwritten rule now, that if i have to click on more than two things to get to page i just forget it. Fuck it. There's some sites, that have the usual consent shit, sign up for a newsletter, pop up advert, register AND starts playing a video that i don't want to watch. All before you can start reading what you wanted to in the first place. FUCK THAT. I genuinely do wonder what goes through marketing/site designers heads when they think people don't mind this.Probably the number of visitors proof them right. I don't know. I mean me landing on the site is considered a visit, but if I don't read anything because I leave straight away, I'm not really using the site. |
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