You really can’t go (or scroll) a few feet some places without bumping into an ad. They are ubiquitous to life these days, for better or worse. It raises the question, what ads were people in the past ...

Old ads can mislead you about what the past used to be like. Ads show off an idealized view of the world, so if you see a bunch of ads of people 60 years ago looking rich and happy, you might think ...