Byline: Peter McWilliams
Internet-related coupons are falling out of my box of Wheaties. College bowl games are being named after video stores. I'm inundated with enough advertising. I don't need nearly every home page I visit to be a front for something being sold.
Yes, considering the medium of the Internet is not unlike television, one can expect small ads every now and then. But movie studios, publishers, other companies and plenty of individuals create home pages that are nothing but billboards trying to push products. It's as if we're stuck in the movie ``Brazil,'' where every day is Christmas and you have to keep buying things all the time.
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