The internet’s “original sin” was committed 30 years ago.

“[…] the gaudy banner ad took over the web […] legend has it that the first HotWired banner ad was from AT&T, prophetically asking “Have you ever clicked your mouse right here? You will.””

https://www.wired.com/2010/10/1027hotwired-banner-ads/

https://web.archive.org/web/20140830021729/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/advertising-is-the-internets-original-sin/376041

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  • Bwaz@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    I.M.O. they really screwed up by making sending emails effectively free. If there had been a charge of only, say, 2 cents per, then spam wouldn’t be like it is now – so bad that email becomes almost unusable.