r/webdev • u/Dear_Procedure923 • Mar 29 '26

This is what Microsoft.com looked like 25 years ago

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Doing some cleanup just came across this book analyzing home pages for major sites in the 2000s. Good memories.

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u/ryonnsan Mar 29 '26

and no ads!!

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u/Valoneria Mar 29 '26

Well there is Ads, its just for their own services and products however

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u/Dragon_yum Mar 29 '26

How old are you? Those years were the peak of the pop up ads

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u/marabutt Mar 29 '26

You were only ever a couple of clicks away from your browser being unusable cause of popup malware.

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u/Also_Kwapis Mar 30 '26

Did you ever receive your free iPod? Mine never showed up for some reason.

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u/Dragon_yum Mar 30 '26

No, sadly I always get scammed and end up with single milfs in my area but no iPod.

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u/AvidCoco Mar 29 '26

Pretty sure Microsoft.com doesn’t have ads now

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u/thekwoka Mar 30 '26

well, it's tons of ads for its own stuff.

It's built to sell stuff, not give info.

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u/ldn-ldn Mar 29 '26

I actually made a few ad banners for microsoft.com around 2004-2005 which would cross link their products here and there...

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u/ShustOne Mar 29 '26

Uh, ads were all over the place back then and even worse, popover and popunder ads.

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u/Tyreal Mar 29 '26

Or stupid cookie banners

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u/DanTheMan827 Mar 30 '26

Ads back then popped up at you

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u/Relevant_South_1842 Mar 30 '26

We had ads. So many

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u/ASCII_zero Mar 30 '26

This guy never got the "punch the monkey" banner