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Black Hat SEO

The Wild West of Early Websites: When We Didn’t Know What We Were Doing (But Neither Did Anyone Else)

Posted on May 12, 2025May 15, 2025 Mobile First | SEO | Website Design | Black Hat SEO

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In the early 1990s, the internet was uncharted territory—a digital Wild West. Websites resembled the ramshackle saloons and dusty trading posts that filled this untamed frontier. There were no rules, no design standards, and certainly no roadmaps. It was a time when web developers like us had to discover things as we went along, often […]

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