The New York Times is going to grade you on how well you crowdsource

In our current digital age, more and more people stop picking up the newspaper and instead browse the web. With ads popping up just about everywhere, the last place you consciously look for ads may be in traditional print publications.

However, newspapers make the most of their revenue from selling ad space. Looking at advertisements of the past can provide cultural history and snapshots of what brands were popular in the daily lives of people in the past.