Ugh…please don’t remind me.

I got enough installed once to fill the whole screen.

I’m not sure if you remember, but site rings were what you used instead of Google. They were useful.

And I’ve seen some guest books with lots of people at some point in my childhood, but about half a year after that everybody firmly chose in favor of hierarchical boards.

And I don’t share that hate for <marquee>, it served the purpose of showing you a long line in a small space, implicitly saying that it’s secondary temporary information, a bit like on TV.

And what’s wrong with animated GIFs, animation is nice.

“Under Construction” GIF

I suppose many people were already using a third-party Aero widget for weather forecast since Windows 7.

I know I did.

They would be abused by spam bots in an instant, even before you could write your own “welcome to my guestbook” post.