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The World's First Banner Ad

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it-didn't-need-to-blink dept.

An anonymous reader submitted a link to what they claim is the the internet's first banner ad. It comes from 1994 HotWired, paid for by AT&T. It's ugly, but no animation, no popups. It makes me a little nostalgic.

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  1. Re:um by tpgp · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's genuine.

    Was a bit in the news last year on the 10th anniversary.

    The comments on this adblog post have a little more info.

    And its bloody depressing that this image is linking to crap you don't want to look at 10+ years on....

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    My pics.
  2. AT&T's "You Will" campaign by zsazsa · · Score: 4, Informative

    This was a part of AT&T's "futuristic" "You Will" campaign. Anyone else remember the commercials 12 years ago? A lot of the things they promised, like attending meetings in your bare feet, checking out at the super market a shopping cart at a time, are now possible -- just not with AT&T's technology. Sorry, guys.

    ad-rag.com has the old TV commercials -- but you have to pay €2 for the privilege. :(

  3. Not the first banner ad by koltrane · · Score: 4, Informative
    This may be the first WEB banner ad, but Prodigy was running advertising banners along the bottom of their EGA screens back in 1991 (and probably earlier). If you think this looks primitive, check out the ZEOS banner on this ZD Prodigy page (Date Unknown)

    http://www.styla.com/images/port_prodigy_full.gif