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Pop up ads. They were a plague in the early internet day.
Myspace. There were so many poorly designed Myspace pages that were hard to read and would make it take longer to load the website.
"Pop-up blocking" started out as a feature of specialty web browsers like iCab and Opera. If I recall correctly, Firefox was the first "mainstream" browser to build it in as a feature; and Chrome supported it from the beginning.
My "favorite" (in hindsight only) popup experience: I was new to my job and was taking a short break from work to look something up on Barnes and Noble's website. Except, I typed BarnesNNoble dot com instead of BarnesAndNoble. I was presented with the image of a woman sans clothing and it certainly wasn't a book she was enjoying!
Obviously, I'm at work (and right down the hall from my boss). I do NOT want to be viewing this stuff now so I close the window. Except up pops another window with another woman definitely not reading. Close. Another one. Close. Another one. Close. Another one.
I actually started sweating because I was sure that my boss would walk in any moment and ask just WHAT I was looking at during work hours.
Finally, I managed to hit close before the pop-up script was able to run. We take pop-up blockers for granted today, but those times between the invention of the pop-up and the pop-up blocker were treacherous times to be online!