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SunlitCat on March 8, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Int...

I still remember all those "guides" about how to design your page, so that the annoying forced ad gets not served / shown.

richarme on March 8, 2025 [–]

window.top.location = window.location

geoffmunn on March 8, 2025 | [–]

At one point, you could leave an open <script> tag at the end of the HTML with the language attribute set to "javascript9.9" or something non-existent, and the JavaScript banner ads wouldn't load.

Good times, those were.

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