In 1994, Wired, then known as HotWired, claims it invented the banner ad. The Mosaic browser was just morphing into Netscape in 1994. And if you think ads slow down page loads now, readers had to download the first banner ads over thin dial-up connections. Despite those handicaps, the gaudy banner ad took over the [...]

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