WWW Creater Slams Common Ad Practice
Content Integrity
6/11/2000; 3:54:13 PM Speaking at the International Advertising Association in London, [Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web] also slammed the practice of designing ads to look as if they are computer system messages. And he was positively scathing about the practice of attaching ads to email sent by users of Microsoft-owned Hotmail. "This either perverts or distorts the message", The Guardian reports him saying. Emphasis mine.