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    Remember when splash pages were a thing? ::face palm:: Just in case we don't have enough dropoff, let's add an extra click to see content before we blow your speakers off with music that automatically plays when you go to the next page.

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    • There were some amazing ones tho..autoflavour
    • You can do anything.. at zombo.comautoflavour
    • I really liked them. Now everyone wants the info so fast so they can get back to scrolling endlessly. Progress I suppose.PhanLo
    • no more user experience these daysGuyFawkes
    • though if i seen a splash page today I'd bounce faster than it takes robo to retweet a trump postGuyFawkes
    • a splash page today is just isolated content over the fold.GuyFawkes
    • Loved splash pages too. Bring back Splash and bring back FLASH while you're at it!microkorg
    • when web pages could be unique and something special.inteliboy
    • Splash pages didn’t seem so bad in the early days as people were coming from a ‘slow’ media experience, magazines, CD etc. compared to instant now.shapesalad
    • i dunno, in hindsight they were quite charming and our impatience was at fault plus give me a splash page now over the endless pop ups on initial visit ...Bluejam
    • Now its all TOS and cookie consentcannonball1978
    • It was a different era. There were orders of magnitude fewer sites to compete with.i_monk
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