history of pop-ups

In 1996, a developer, who thought he was going to revolutionize the world suggested 'window.open' as one of the programming tags in the Netscape LiveScript programming language. They accepted it, and Netscape teamed with Sun and named it JavaScript. 

Then, some 'genius' in the advertising department decided that they could use this to their benefit, by 'popping up' a window right in the viewers face. The first people to use a pop-up was GeoCities, and then it spread to Tripod, and then AngelFire, and soon more and more companies were either taking up or starting up a site which offered a free service with pop-up advertising. It spread like the plague. The only way to get rid of these annoying windows is to use a piece of software, like KillAd.

If you hate pop-ups, then you should send a e-mail to the people at GeoCities, Tripod, AngelFire and all the other services that we list in the abusers section. Once you've done that, spread the word about popBusters to anyone and everyone.