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Ha, that url was blocked by my aggressive filters. :) "Scenario #6: Professional content dies almost immediately." is ridiculous. There was a web before advert
by aw3c2 17y ago
Ha, that url was blocked by my aggressive filters. :)
"Scenario #6: Professional content dies almost immediately." is ridiculous. There was a web before advertisements and it was (and still is) full of the finest professional content. If your business model is based on ads, then you have no business model. Internet ad monetization is nothing but a gamble.
Let's see how many ad-less "professional" (as in useful and of varying quality) sites I frequently use.
wikipedia
openstreetmap
wolfram alpha
media archives of hacker conferences
lots of open-source related websites
countless other wikis
countless sites by people who love doing what they do, be it hacking, creating, analysing or whatever else
With no more ads I would anticipate more actual content created out of affection (might not be the correct word, no english native speaker here?) and less "this is where people click on most banners, so let's shove more if it down their throats".
- derefr 17y agoI agree, mostly; there are a lot of other business models for sites: donations (Wikipedia), complementary to a pay product (Wolfram Alpha), scratching an itch (many wiki sites), subscriptions, etc. However, on this point: > There was a web before advertisements Was there? How many people used it? What for? What were the business models? I find it hard to believe that people were putting their credit cards out over the web in great numbers back in 1995, so were these sites just operating under the assumption that they were generating brand-awareness, or something like that?
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoAmazon were selling books online in 1995. Not sure how they were advertising, I'm guessing it was mainly offline, though I imagine possibly signature ads on newsgroups may have been part of it.