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It’s really funny seeing everybody here talk about how Neopets taught them HTML/introduced them to coding, and all I can think about was how it taught me about
by Forgeties79 1y ago
It’s really funny seeing everybody here talk about how Neopets taught them HTML/introduced them to coding, and all I can think about was how it taught me about “immersive advertising”!
- herpdyderp 1y agoIt also taught me about savings account interest rates!
- namanyayg 1y agoRemind me of how immersive advertising worked in neopets?
- Forgeties79 1y agoCorporate sponsors all over the place. Sponsored/themed games in particular. It basically existed for brands to market to kids.
- bpicolo 1y agoThat came later. Didn't have those earlier on. Unless Extreme Potato Counter was sponsored by Big Potato...
- Forgeties79 1y agoEarlier on was only a couple of years if I remember correctly (obviously my time messing with Neopets is a little fuzzy hardly a core memory!)especially once it was acquired by Viacom. Did a cursory search so take all this with a grain of salt, but looking at the timeline of when ads are introduced, then the acquisition, peak users, etc. I’d say most people were playing in a pretty serious corporate sandbox for most of its most relevant years.