Behold, the only browser that is truly improved in every way over time.
Pre-cancer since zog hasn't shut it down yet; no web extensions.
>muh furry
As if Googlag and Pozilla don't have dozens....
>>3535 popular ≠ good
niche = superior to popular
Examples of popular: social media, windows, cuckchan, mainstream media, normie - all shit.
Examples of niche: GNU/Linux, nanochan, tor, autistic stuff, anon - all superior to popular.
>>3543 True, popular things, in general, are traps for new folks.
A big problem with them is that they can set standards that pull you into them. For example, there are enough retards using Facebook and LinkedIn, that it's now a popular expectation that you should be using them and by not, you draw suspicion.
Be careful of niche stuff too, some of these things can be used to coral folks who reject what is popular and target specific people.
Facebook is the worst, requiring you to "verify" yourself in order to use it. It's advertised everywhere, especially on legacy media (TV, radio, print media, etc) so this is the catach-all and newfags will hand over their info to use it.
Reddit is the catch-all for people rejecting the Facebook model, but is still a popular walled garden pushed by corporate influence (it's owned by a legacy media company). Mandatory user accounts, SWJ moderation, and popular post voting make it a degenerate safespace that only allows for "acceptable" discussion. Any person that opens up a new profile for Firefox browser will see a link to it, that's a hook dangling in front of a wide audience.
Popular clearnet chans, especially cuckchan catch everyone banned from Reddit, but who would still to use it, if they could.
These places still harvest user data and are not safe to use, private entities with corporate connections can figure out who you are.
Pigchan is a shitty attempt to make something like old 4ch. Tor access exists, but there are still clearnet dependencies when using the onion interface and the site is designed to be used with JShit. This is either through incompetence or an intentional trap. Endchan is accessible through the clearnet as well so it's similar but a fraction of the trafic.
Nano seems to be the best IMHO and closest to precancer. As long as you don't out yourself, it's likely that you'll be fine against activist and corporate faggots. Glow-in-the-darks probably can figure out who you are if they really want to, but would likely not come after you unless you're pushing CP or planning terror type shit. If they do van you, they'll likely need to do it illegally or come up with parallel construction to cover their tracks.
>>3552 i think windows got ClearType around 2006 or at least that's when everyone started using it, maybe only as a reaction from the transition to LCD
>Liking rounded GUI elements
Fuck that shit, I used 98 style. Still do on pre-10 computers.
My mate used to have one of these phones and threw it around for fun. I'm kinda envious of schoolkids who can browse the internet on their lunch breaks these days.
>>3539 I felt so fucking superior when I moved to Firefox with its tabbed browsing, extensions and adblockers. So revolutionary at the time. Then there was Opera if you wanted lightweight.
>>3561 That cap brought back a lot of memories. Firefox really was a good browser in le good old days (2007-2010), now it's just javashit cancer, flashy animations and privacy-violating bullshit.
>>3551 Nothing ever replaced google desktop.
There's no context-indexing dekstop search software that actually works. On windows, at least.
Worst part is pre-indexed windows search was much faster.
one of the only sites that still exist and still arent complete cancer. found pic in some youtube video. ppl werent gay enough to make youtube tutorials before 2010 so thats as far back as i could get
>>3779 it sucks. too much fake colors. frst thing on xp or any os was / is to change wallpaper. but these hills are the next level of too bright obnoxious aesthetics that slowly wear down your eyes.
>>3561 God, early Opera was amazing. I think it started slowing down around the 7.0 patch when they stopped caching pages. That, along with JS-less web 1.0 was peak browsing.
>>3783 Whoever is in charge of the default wallpapers at Microsoft needs to get fired. Windows 10 looks okay but there's clear jpeg artifacting. Not only that but I believe you have to change a registry setting to get it to not convert your wallpaper to low quality jpeg. But generally I just stick with solid black. At least dark theme isn't an impossible goal these days.
>>3788 I used Opera pre-Chrome because it was pretty much your only option for a lightweight browser. I used Firefox for most stuff, but Opera for watching Youtube. I watched Azumanga and Haruhi on Youtube at 360p, which was the maximum resolution until 2008. I don't know how I did it.
Firefox got more and more bloated, and one big selling point of Chrome was that it was lightweight. People used to say shit like "it starts up instantly", which was a big deal in pre SSD days. Then Chrome started bloating and Firefox got trimmed down. Now Firefox is more lightweight, which I find hilarious, having switched from Firefox to Chrome those many years ago.
Anyway, my contribution is the final years of the N64 console. It was built in the 90s, but games were being released for it up until 2002. Those were the last years of the golden age of programming, where a team of 20 or so people got together and spent years developing a game which could fit onto a 32MB cartridge. No design patterns or object oriented programming, just people writing algorithms that got the job done. They had to figure out 3D programming by themselves, because there was no source code out there for them to copy. I'd give a lot to witness the development of those games.
>>3799 >Whoever is in charge of the default wallpapers at Microsoft needs to get fired
*Whoever is in charge of letting Microsoft exist needs to get fired from the planet
>>3799 Yeah, I used Opera until it was removed from the OpenBSD ports tree. Firefox ever since. I liked Palemoon but their neurotic dev-licensing drama won't last. Even Netsurf is going for the HTML5+JS support. No one is safe from bloat-maxing and feature creep.
>>3799 Anything where people are forced to do a lot of stuff with very little resources results in ingenious engineering. This applies to everything, not just software. When people have infinite resources, they make ugly and crappy products from an engineering standpoint.
Remember when the only way to use a webcam was with real software instead of webshit as envisioned by marketers? It would be 10 years before webcams were actually used ubiquitously on the web (which still sux donkey dick compared to real software).
>>3817 oh and now we have Skype which is basically just a webshit pretending to be software and full of (((UX))) and (((security))) features such as showing inane blank pages and locking you out of your account, respectively
also remember when you could lock someone out of their MSN account by trying to login to it to many times?
this is how a contact list looked in the upper precancer period. it's a list of contacts. you double click one and it opens a chat with that contact (since this is a chat application)
and this is how a contact list looks in the post cancer period.
you need to click the tiny scroll bar if you want to see past the 4th contact in the list. you can't just click in the contacts window and use the scroll wheel because that will start a chat with someone or crash the program or some shit. i literally used this shit once and it made a phone call to some guy after i pressed some button
lots of space is devoted to buttons you never use like "add contact" because the average user is retarded and will panic and uninstall the program if he can't find the add contact button within 1 second of using the program the first time (yet other buttons will do random bullshit without any indication other than a non-standardized icon, like calling the person's phone)
>fuck you i took a UX class
>hahahah you don't like modern UI boomer?
>I bet you're fun at parties
Nevar forget. Post upper precancer period tech