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I can't say exactly when I first noticed how pervasive and intrusive web advertising was getting but it was at least 10 years after I started using the web regu
by wizofaus 3y ago
I can't say exactly when I first noticed how pervasive and intrusive web advertising was getting but it was at least 10 years after I started using the web regularly (~1994).
- scarface_74 3y agoThe first web banner ad was in fact 1994. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-first-ever-banner-ad-on-the-web/523728/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-f... The x10 pop up windows were ubiquitous by 2001 https://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=88041&page=1 https://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=88041&page=1
- wizofaus 3y agoPerhaps, but it didn't seem to badly affect the sites I mostly visited until much later.