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Some of them were advertisements as we know them now. In particular website authoring tools would add these unprompted as self-advertisement. That was part of
by avar 4y ago
Some of them were advertisements as we know them now.
In particular website authoring tools would add these unprompted as self-advertisement.
That was part of the joke of "made with GNU emacs" or whatever, that you were manually adding the same advertisement the "Made with Microsoft Frontpage" users had foisted on them.
- teddyh 4y agoThose kind of “self-advertisements” were, first of all, relatively uncommon, so much so that they were annoying and lampooned when they appeared. They were also not what we now normally name “advertisements”. Is “Sent by my iPhone” an advertisement? Strictly speaking, yes, but the word “advertisement”, in normal language (and assuming a web context), means a banner ad or similar. These buttons were not paid banner ads, is all I’m saying.
- avar 4y agoIt wasn't uncommon, most websites made by these popular GUI tools retrained these banners, You're using some narrow definition of "advertising" that doesn't match common use. You don't need to be paid to be a walking billboard. When the program you were using inserted these it was analogous to license plate frame advertising today[1]. Consumers don't get paid for those either, but it's advertising for car dealerships. There was also a culture of voluntarily inserting these, but that doesn't mean some of them weren't product placement or advertising. 1. https://www.zazzle.com/car+advertisement+license+plate+frames https://www.zazzle.com/car+advertisement+license+plate+frame...