Woooo, happy fifteenth birthday, internet banner ads!!!
Oct. 27 marks the 15th anniversary of the industry’s first banner display ads, which appeared on Hotwired.com…
It was May 1994, and Ed Artzt, the chairman of P&G at the time, made his landmark speech at the 4A’s meeting in White Sulphur Springs, WV calling for marketers and their agencies to dive headlong into the “new media” revolution or be left behind.
If yesterday’s GeoCities news gave you a nostalgic internet chill, check out this hilarious original ad for AT&T — I’m pretty sure Wesley Snipes wore this in White Men Can’t Jump:
Whaaaat? “Click” my “mouse”?? Why would I do that??? This is all so confusing…
But the absolute first banner ad on the internet was, technically, this one:
