1994: __Wired.com, then known as HotWired, invents the web banner ad. Go ahead, blame us. The Mosaic browser was just morphing into Netscape in 1994. And if you think ads slow down page loads now ...

This is stupid because people are very unlikely to click on banner ads. The people who do tend to be poorer and less educated. A company called Solve Media – which places ads in CAPTCHAs – has ...