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Re:US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case by Iulioh on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @04:32PM (#41792319)
What do you mean before advertising?

There is no before advertising

Pretty sure we have ads from Mesopotamia

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Re:US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case by jollofricepeas on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @04:55PM (#41792510)
Give or take a few hundred years.

Advertising (4000 BCE)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_advertising

Fact-checking is literally just a Google search away. Irony intended.

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Re:US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case by trgn on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @05:30PM (#41792878)
i know what you're saying, but really now, you know what i mean. some scribbles on a pancard or some fish monger shouting above the crowd, it's not the same as the mass media ads that find you everywhere willingly and unwillingy, 24/7. so before 1900, why not, to make it easy. let's go back there.
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