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Well yes, there was a period of time during the 20th century when all commercial activities were banned from the internet, until around 1995 IIANM. Basically In
by bigbugbag 10y ago
Well yes, there was a period of time during the 20th century when all commercial activities were banned from the internet, until around 1995 IIANM. Basically Internet was non commercial from about 1978 to 1995, though I think the first banner ad came to existence 1 year before in 1994, that's still a longer period without ads than with.
- sanswork 10y agoIf you look at archives of USENET from those time periods plenty of people had ads in their signatures for example and even if you don't count that the first spam message was sent in 1978 so that whole time period is post internet ads.