[ih] History of the Economics of the Internet?

[the keyboard of geoff goodfellow]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at 4:19 PM Jack Haverty via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> I can't remember but maybe you can.   When was the first time you sent
> an email and casually mentioned some obscure item, and then suddenly
> started seeing ads for that item on web pages?  It's been happening for
> a long time, but history might be interested in when it started and who
> did it.
>

even more "disturbing" is having a "private" chat (not email, not dm/text)
conversation with someone -- either in person or over a voice call -- about
"something" -- like a product, service or topic -- and then all of a sudden
starting to see ads for that "something" show up on web pages or on your
social media timeline!

g


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