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by superkuh 777 days ago
> heavily leverage Flash, Shockwave, Java Applets, Image Maps, etc.

For navigation. Full Flash/Shockwave/Java sites for the content were very rare. The text itself was still text in the HTML. It might not have been perfect but at least you had something for the screen reader to read. Modern sites are just blank pages of nothing.