Hello! Here’s your computer after ten minutes on the Internet:
This nightmarish vision of “Buy all the things” is a very old screenshot of mine from many years ago, when ads were in full swing, Adware vendors were happy to cover your screen in wall-to-wall popups and ad blockers were still running around in diapers.
Ads, ads everywhere: The Early Years
Everybody was a bit sick and tired of their browsers being buried beneath a raft of six thousand “You’ve won a prize, honest” boxes and the rise in popularity of blocking adverts was a given. Indeed, at one point in 2006 adult webmasters were so enraged about Adware adverts that they started detecting which visitors had Zango installed then redirecting them to a page warning them about the programs:
Exciting stuff, and that was just the beginning…
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