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In the year 2000, an internet friend gave me FTP credentials to a directory on his domain so I could host images and post them on the forum we were friends on.

He provided this service to all the forum users because we were all like :woah: when he started posting images that weren't just leeched from another domain.

Eventually he did ask users throw him a few bucks, and then he made a tutorial on how to get your own domain and do it yourself.

Which tells me I've been using filezilla for about 2/3 of my life.

Close, but 2000s had some very intrusive and malware ridden advertisements. Popups everywhere, aggressive banners, malware and random browser toolbars being installed to your system. Complete wild west of unrestrained advertising. Online ad blocking didn't start with Ublock Origin, the first tipping point was in the 90s and 2000s, where famously clean and effective search engine Google swooped in to "save us" with their Chrome browser blocking popups by default, and their own concept of 'ethical ads', which were mostly unobtrusive and text-based (what happened there?). Which was nice for a while before Google exploited the popularity that bought them to turn into an inescapable ad monster.

What are you talking about, ads were far worse back in the 90s /2000. Were you even using the Internet back then? Couldn't block them and things like infinite pop ups were rampant, if you didn't have a firewall setup and anti virus, your entire Windows 98 setup could be wrecked in minutes just being online

Use SponsorBlock for the "content creator"

It's not all black and white though. People in the 2000's didn't know that you can make a living off content creation, but people who have adopted this style usually can and will (or should) turn more effort into creating high quality videos.