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The web died the minute the first advertiser showed up.
by oldpond 9y ago
The web died the minute the first advertiser showed up.
- GuB-42 9y agoI did a quick research - The web was invented in 1989 - It became public in 1991 - The first ad banner appeared in 1994 - The first central ad server appeared in 1995 Interestingly ads roughly coincides with the "eternal september", the time when the internet really became public. It means that the greater web, the one that is accessible to all people was born with ads. And BTW, I wouldn't trade todays internet for what we had in the 90s. Yes, it was cleaner back then, ye didn't have to worry too much about ads, privacy, all that stuff and the SNR was much higher but it doesn't make up for the sheer amount of information that is available now backed by search engines that are borderline psychic.
- intended 9y agoI'd trade. I've gotten better at guessing whats coming. I miss the days of yore when we were young and innocent and dreamed of a brighter open future. Now the only solution is to disconnect.
- ori_b 9y agoI would trade. When it comes to searching for things in Google, it feels like the spammers won; there's just not much there that's both relevant and not trying to sell me something. There's more information, but it's much harder to find anything, and outside of small communities, everyone writing interesting things has either stopped or has happily stepped into a walled garden and become undiscoverable.