Editing Pop-up ad (section)

==History==
Pop-up ads originated on the [[Tripod.com]] webpage hosting site in the late 1990s.  [[JavaScript]] provided the capability for a web page to open another window. [[Ethan Zuckerman]] claims he used that capability to launch advertisements in separate windows as a response to complaints from advertisers about their ads appearing on pages with sexual content.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/advertising-is-the-internets-original-sin/376041/?single_page=true |title=The Internet's Original Sin: It's not too late to ditch the ad-based business model and build a better web. |last=Zuckerman |first=Ethan |date=August 14, 2014 |publisher=The Atlantic |access-date=June 7, 2019}}</ref> Zuckerman later apologized for the unforeseen nuisance pop-up ads had evolved into.<ref>{{cite news|last=O'Toole|first=James|title=Pop-up ad creator: 'I'm sorry'|url=https://money.cnn.com/2014/08/15/technology/pop-up-ads/index.html|access-date=August 15, 2014 |publisher=money.cnn.com}}</ref>