The internet's oldest advertisement

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#1  Edited By nintendoeats

I was bouncing around the internet when I noticed this ad. Is it just me, or is this picture part of the underlying code of the internet or something? Those two people must be absolutely rolling in dosh, because those pictures have been on my various monitors for as long as I have been on the internet. I'm not sure if there is a question here but...christ, would somebody just send this ad to the End of Ze F***ing World!?!?! (Alaska can come too)

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#2  Edited By sorawesome

lol i remember seeing this like 5 years ago, wish it'd die too.

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#3  Edited By FluxWaveZ

True, I remember seeing that ad for a pretty long time now.

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#4  Edited By natetodamax

Oh man, I haven't seen that in ages. So yeah, I'd say it's one of the oldest ads.

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#5  Edited By TheMustacheHero

HAHAHAHA "rolling in dosh"

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#6  Edited By PS3RG

This is thread is true.

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#7  Edited By Kyreo
@PS3RG said:
" This is thread is true. "
wut
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#8  Edited By endless_void
@Kyreo said:
" @PS3RG said:
" This is thread is true. "
wut "
this is wut is wut
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#9  Edited By TheDeadComedian

I bet when anybody sees them on the street, they get this weird feeling that they've met

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#10  Edited By TheMustacheHero
@endless_void said:
" @Kyreo said:
" @PS3RG said:
" This is thread is true. "
wut "
this is wut is wut "
This wut is wut is true.
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#11  Edited By ch13696

Soooooo... did they really get married?

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#12  Edited By ryanwho
@ch13696 said:
" Soooooo... did they really get married? "
no way
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#13  Edited By HandsomeDead

So am I the only one who uses adblock?

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#14  Edited By marrec

So am I the only one who was on the internet before 2005?

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#15  Edited By nintendoeats
@HandsomeDead said:
" So am I the only one who uses adblock? "
Ads pay for websites, I prefer to be defiant and just not click on the ads. I guess it doesn't matter, but I feel like I'm helping.
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#16  Edited By nintendoeats
@PrivateIronTFU said:
" Yeah, I remember that ad. I still see it on occasion. 
 
And here's the internet's oldest profession. 

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That shit cannot be real, that shit must be real.
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#17  Edited By PrivateIronTFU
@nintendoeats: It's real, but pretty unbelievable. Did you read it? 124 FUCKING LINES!
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#18  Edited By nintendoeats
@marrec said:
" So am I the only one who was on the internet before 2005? "
Its older than that. I'm positive, I have been seeing it since I started surfing int he early 00's. Even then I wondered why people would want to meet their old classmates...nyah to Facebook.
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#19  Edited By nintendoeats
@PrivateIronTFU said:
" @nintendoeats: It's real, but pretty unbelievable. Did you read it? 124 FUCKING LINES! "
Is that as in telephone lines, or image resolution?
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#20  Edited By PrivateIronTFU
@nintendoeats said:
" @PrivateIronTFU said:
" @nintendoeats: It's real, but pretty unbelievable. Did you read it? 124 FUCKING LINES! "
Is that as in telephone lines, or image resolution? "
I'm pretty sure it's telephone lines, but it's funnier if we pretend they mean resolution.
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#21  Edited By Video_Game_King

I think you cropped that picture, since the rest says, "Who would fuck these people?" The rollover says, "They'd fuck each other."

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#22  Edited By Fascism
@PrivateIronTFU:  OVER 16 FUCKING GIGS!!!!1!
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#23  Edited By PrivateIronTFU
@Fascism: I KNOW! Can you imagine downloading a porn gif in the early nineties? It would take ages, it would!
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#25  Edited By BionicMonster

wait a second THOSE TWO GOT MARRIED??? 
you win again internet.

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Oh, Bonzi Buddy. You're my bestest friend.
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#27  Edited By Little_Socrates

It's been around since I've been on the net, anyways.

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#28  Edited By jorbear

Yeah they got married! I'm kind of their child. Way to be so insensitive guys. 

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@nintendoeats said:
" @PrivateIronTFU said:
" Yeah, I remember that ad. I still see it on occasion. 
 
And here's the internet's oldest profession. 

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That shit cannot be real, that shit must be real. "
I bet my collection of adult GIFS is larger.
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#30  Edited By damswedon
    
That was supposedly created in october of 1994 
the link was added by the site I found it on.
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#31  Edited By Deusoma

I remember the pop-up ads that tried to fool stupid people by including fake Windows bars at the top so they'd click on the ad when they clicked the X button.
 
I never really knew what they were trying to accomplish with that, actually, since they still don't care about your product, and now they're very mildly irritated and closing your window right away anyway.

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#32  Edited By nintendoeats
@Deusoma: Yeah...They still make those.
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#33  Edited By ShockD

Nice. I've seen that ad online. So it's still used.

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#34  Edited By Bones8677

That's a pretty old ad. I'm willing to bet money though that those two photos are from completely different schools. And the people in those photos were never made aware of this ad's existence. Probably still to this day.

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#35  Edited By melcene
@marrec said:
" So am I the only one who was on the internet before 2005? "
Classmates.com has been around since 1995.  You're about 10 years off.
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#36  Edited By Scooper
@nintendoeats said:
" @PrivateIronTFU said:
" Yeah, I remember that ad. I still see it on occasion. 
 
And here's the internet's oldest profession. 

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That shit cannot be real, that shit must be real. "
I like that there's multiple grammatical mistakes in the first sentance.
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#37  Edited By iam3green

yeah, i think that's the oldest ad that is still around. i have adblock on so i don't see ads anymore but still.

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#38  Edited By mfpantst

this thread is amazing.  Never thought about it.  Al Gore must have drawn up that classmates ad.

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#39  Edited By Lemoncookie01

Oldest Gif. incoming

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#40  Edited By TwoOneFive

lol that is an old ad  

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#41  Edited By ViciousReiven

I think the oldest ad should appear as an ad on   Guinness World Records website, and if you click on it it'll take you to the record page :p

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#42  Edited By CharlesSahara

Not an ad, but anyone remember hamster dance?
 

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#43  Edited By regularassmilk

I do remember seeing that ad forever.
I wonder if they even know eachother.

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#44  Edited By gamer_152  Moderator

Waiting for creepypasta to be posted based around this ad.

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#45  Edited By marrec
@melcene said:

" @marrec said:

" So am I the only one who was on the internet before 2005? "
Classmates.com has been around since 1995.  You're about 10 years off. "
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003325519_adcouple27.html  
 
This article pegs the add at around 2003. So more like 2 years off. 
 
 http://www.infoworld.com/t/business/how-classmatescom-got-its-15-million-paying-members-210 
 
And this one seems to indicate that in 2002 Classmates.com was using Text based adds. 
 
Just saying. 
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#46  Edited By nintendoeats
@marrec: I appreciate the research,truly I do...
 
But this is way less interesting now that I know they are actually married.
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#47  Edited By marrec
@nintendoeats said:
" @marrec: I appreciate the research,truly I do...  But this is way less interesting now that I know they are actually married. "
Either way, that dude in the Ad is undressing me with his eyes.