The internet itself wouldn't even exist without ads. I hope you are joking, or knowingly exaggerating. The internet was around waaaayyyyy before ads. Even wh

The internet itself wouldn't even exist without ads. I hope you are joking, or knowingly exaggerating. The internet was around waaaayyyyy before ads. Even when hte internet became a conduit for commerce, the first ads were just banners that advertisers bought on a (usually) related web page. Kind of like newspapers. Then Google decided that they would show ads based on what people were looking for. Rather than guessing my interests because I'm on the West Marine web page, they will show me ads related to my search inquiry. Starts to get a little creepy, but as long as they don't save my queries it's probably ok. <insert a montage/> And now we are where we are today.