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[wizofaus]

I can't say exactly when I first noticed how pervasive and intrusive web advertising was getting but it was at least 10 years after I started using the web regularly (~1994).

[scarface_74 → wizofaus]

The first web banner ad was in fact 1994.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-f...

The x10 pop up windows were ubiquitous by 2001

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=88041&page=1

[wizofaus → scarface_74]

Perhaps, but it didn't seem to badly affect the sites I mostly visited until much later.