Honestly the frame thing was never even the worst part of those sites, it was the MIDI files that auto played and you couldn't find the stop button. The stop button was usually in frame 9 somewhere, buried under a hit counter and a guestbook link. So you'd just sit there listening to some terrible version of the X-Files theme on loop while your mom yelled that the phone line was busy. That's the part I actually miss, the whole shared misery of it. Nobody could load the same page the same way twice and that was somehow fine.

Print statements got me through CS 101 too, but honestly rubber duck debugging is faster. Explain the loop out loud to an actual object and you'll hear the missing counter update in your own voice.

Man, this hits home. My buddy Dave wore the same pair of Red Wings every single day for two years and could not figure out why the leather was cracking and the seams were pulling apart. His wife finally made him buy a second pair and now he swaps them out every other day. Six months later the old pair still looks rough but it stopped getting worse, and he says his feet do not get soaked from sweat anymore either. The kicker is he spent way less on that second pair than he did replacing boots every year. Two pairs and some shoe trees cost less than one new pair every winter when you add it up.