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how did this happen before advertising? trade shows, trade magazines, word of mouth, window-dressing in the THING-quarter, ... why are personalized ads on a w

• Iulioh 2y ago
  What do you mean before advertising? There is no before advertising Pretty sure we have ads from Mesopotamia
  • jollofricepeas 2y ago
    Give or take a few hundred years. Advertising (4000 BCE) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_advertising https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_advertising Fact-checking is literally just a Google search away. Irony intended.
  • trgn 2y ago
    i know what you're saying, but really now, you know what i mean. some scribbles on a pancard or some fish monger shouting above the crowd, it's not the same as the mass media ads that find you everywhere willingly and unwillingy, 24/7. so before 1900, why not, to make it easy. let's go back there.
• WalterBright 2y ago
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  • account42 2y ago
    The same way that the sumerians had computers, yes.
    • WalterBright 2y ago
      No, not the same way.
• hightrix 2y ago
  > why are personalized ads on a website indispensable? They aren't. This is exactly what I mean by modern advertising. If ads were just contextual based on the content of the page, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
  • kelnos 2y ago
    > If ads were just contextual based on the content of the page, we wouldn't be having this conversation. I'd still be blocking them, though.