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Advertisements in media


Making something free or cheaper because there are ads is not something unique to the internet, newspapers have been doing it for decades. The medium of the internet is what makes ads like these very popular. The internet has also fundamentally changed how we view ads.

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In addition to the ISPs, e-mail services like Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail provided free e-mail addresses paid for by small text ads at the bottom of every e-mail message sent. These free “webmail” services soon expanded to comprise a large part of the e-mail services that are available today.1