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> the humanity as whole I think this 'pay for ads you are just lucky to be here' thing is a distinctly American invention...

• gruez 6mo ago
  Source? It's not at all obvious given that it dates back to at least the days of newspapers.
  • wizzwizz4 6mo ago
    The classified ads section in a newspaper is valuable, and you can discard it. (If you meant ads stuffed around articles: yes, that annoys me, but I'm also not familiar enough with the papers that do that to name one.)
  • 52-6F-62 6mo ago
    The newspaper ads looking to capture my escaped ancestors who stole some shoes and ran away from their indenturement for Canada. https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2013/05/advertising-in-america/ https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2013/05/advertising-in-... If you are looking for one canonical, authoritative source to declare something absolutely for you, you will never find it. No such thing exists for any matter. That is a myth of the internet and people raised on it.
    • gruez 6mo ago
      >If you are looking for one canonical, authoritative source to declare something absolutely for you, you will never find it Even if we treat your source as canonical and authoritative, , it doesn't answer the question I was asking. It only answers a slightly different question of "what was the first instance of a paid advertisement in an American newspaper?", which obviously is going to be American. >But did you know that the first time a paid advertisement appeared in an American newspaper it happened here in Boston?
      • 52-6F-62 6mo ago
        I don't owe you anything here.