Those damn toolbars
Nothing was worse than going home to your parent’s house, only to see their home computer taken over by toolbars. This was a familiar aesthetic for Internet Explorer, which eventually developed a reputation for becoming the browser you used when you didn’t know better.
You can still find people complaining about too much stuff installed on their Windows machines from back in the day. The culprit was usually some spyware or bloatware that came off the internet. One of the most infamous back in the day was the Ask toolbar.
