[jklinger410]

Webrings, the original Web 1.0 that many gush about on this site, were partially designed to farm adsense revenue.

AOL started putting ads on your dashboard less than 2 years after it launched.

There wasn't a very long period of ad-free internet.

[actionfromafar]

Static banner ads with no (user) tracking aint such a bad thing IMHO.

I wonder how this could be implemented at a technical level. How do you avoid gaming the system?

[xarope]

tongue in cheek, I don't remember any ads in gopher sites, back in the days.