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The young web had no ads at all.

• p_ing 9mo ago
  You're misremembering the young web.
  • kevin_thibedeau 9mo ago
    Did you see any ads in 1993?
    • vardump 9mo ago
      Hmm... Most pages that time were grey with very few images. Ads were certainly very rare in 1993.
• vidarh 9mo ago
  For a very narrow definition of "the young web". The period without ads lasted ~4 years, during which almost nobody used the web, and even fewer used a graphical browser. Mosaic 0.5 was first released in January '93 (yes, there were other graphical browsers preceding it, like Viola, but none saw broad distribution) Netscape was first launched in October '94. By '94 the first banner ads existed. DoubleClick started selling banner ads in '95.