daily knowledge: ethan zuckerman invented the pop up ad while working for tripod.com in the late 1990s. he apologized for this in 2014, and regrets the ad-driven state of the web today.

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daily knowledge: ethan zuckerman invented the pop up ad while working for tripod.com in the late 1990s. he apologized for this in 2014, and regrets the ad-driven state of the web today.
every time i read something like that i go "yeah sure he """invented it""""" only to be reminded by myself that yes, actually, there was a time were the internet was such a new thing that you could invent something entirely new, rather than just reframing an old idea