If We All Hate Ads So Much … Why Do They Still Exist?
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8 min readNov 21, 2015
It’s difficult to pinpoint when advertising first appeared.
Some say as early as 500 B.C., when folks began walking around with signs promoting goods they had for sale.
Others point to 13th-century China when artisans began wrapping their goods in paper — on which they would print details about the goods inside as well as information about where…