If you look at the Internet a few years back, you’ll see that advertising was done in a way that was very similar to other types of media like television, or actually, more like what you see in a newspaper.

You’d enter a site, and in some location you’d get to see a banner (often these were quite numerous and very large), which would present and ad for whatever company was paying for adds on your space.

However, this type of advertising has a problem. It really wasn’t exploiting the fact that the adds weren’t in some newspaper, but were instead presented over the Internet.

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