Tiny Snippets of Code That Changed The World
Only a few short lines can have a massive, global impact
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5 min readNov 30, 2022
In 1997, Ethan Zuckerman broke the Internet — by inventing the pop-up ad.
He was working for Tripod.com, an online service that let people make little web pages for free. To make money, Tripod sold ads that ran alongside the pages. The problem was, ads would wind up…
