The World's First Banner Ad 157
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.
Can't see it (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Can't see it (Score:3, Informative)
mirror [cox.net]
Dammit, firefox! (Score:5, Funny)
Stupid firefox, I'm gonna get a *real* web browser, like Lynx - Lynx wouldn't show me the banner ad!!
--LWM
PS My god, it's ugly! We've come a long way! Not sure if that's good or bad...
Gotcha! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Gotcha! (Score:2)
Re:Gotcha! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Gotcha! (Score:2)
You were warned that if you did that too much you'd go blind!
um (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:um (Score:5, Informative)
Was a bit in the news last year on the 10th anniversary.
The comments on this adblog post [blogs.com] 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....
Re:um (Score:1)
In CBG's voice... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:In CBG's voice... (Score:2)
No kidding! (Score:1)
Re:In CBG's voice... (Score:5, Funny)
IMP (Score:3, Funny)
Re:In CBG's voice... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:In CBG's voice... (Score:2)
Re:In CBG's voice... (Score:3, Funny)
http://tehl0ng35tl1st0vtehl0ng35t5tuffattehl0nges
Much more annoying
Click Through Rate? (Score:3, Funny)
Hey Taco (Score:2, Insightful)
Anyone else remember when Hemos and CmdrTaco violently swore Slashdot would never have Flash ads?
Re:Hey Taco (Score:1)
Money makes everyone compromise their values.
Re:Hey Taco (Score:2)
Re:Hey Taco (Score:2)
Unfortunatly, advertisers want flash ads (which isnt surprising, a flash ads is easier to create and potentially a smaller file than the same ad as an animated gif due to the vector nature of flash files) and slashdot has to comply to get the advertisers.
Buffer overflow! (Score:5, Funny)
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--LWM
PS - any russian haxor is gonna be able to type "p0wnd" juuuust fine.
Re:Buffer overflow! (Score:2)
$ file pwned.txt
pwned.txt: UTF-8 Unicode English text
Which makes sense, since my locale is en_US.UTF-8. I didn't think about using any specific encoding. (I assume it was readable)
PS: As for your PS
Re:Buffer overflow! (Score:2)
--LWM
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--LWM
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--LWM
I think... (Score:2)
...you just did
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Previously covered by "ClickZ" in 2004 (Score:2)
Re:Previously covered by "ClickZ" in 2004 (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Previously covered by "ClickZ" in 2004 (Score:2)
And just think.... (Score:2, Funny)
10 years later... (Score:5, Insightful)
Google honed the concept of relevance in advertizing with unobtrusive text ads.
Secret sauce: relevance
Result: Profits and a market cap of $130B [yahoo.com]
Compare this with the fate of the company that paid for that first banner ad [yahoo.com]...
Re:10 years later... (Score:2)
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Re:10 years later... (Score:3, Insightful)
That didn't stop me from trying, after one of my friends told me that they'll still work at a healthy speed.
Did it a few times... until I started getting pissed off letters in the mail telling me to slow the F down.
Moral of the story: Just because they work at 35mph, doesn't mean you can ignore the 10mph posted limit.
Kind like flashing banners: Just because you can make them, doesn't mean you should.
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The fun thing is that while most of their predictions was true, and they actually had all this great technology working in the labs and even as products, they were copmpletely unable to market it. The AT&T commercials were about brand, not products. So all the incredible cool stuff the brilliant people at Bell Labs cooked up, never reached the consumers. A huge waste.
Re:10 years later... (Score:2)
As opposed to the standard, irrelevant so there's no way I'd ever look at them on my own but obtrusive so maybe I'll accidentally do it.
Re:10 years later... (Score:2)
Worth slightly more than 10 years ago.
First spam email in 1978? (Score:5, Interesting)
http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamreact.html [templetons.com]
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LOL, I can't believe I licked on thelink! (Score:4, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:5, Interesting)
I find this... (Score:3, Interesting)
More Retarded Links (Score:2, Funny)
A Slashdotter Can Dream [thelongest...nglast.com]
Stuff You Already Know (but is likely wrong now) [thelongest...nglast.com]
Hey, This one actually has a [thelongest...nglast.com] computer reference [norvig.com]
You Have Them All Memorized, Right? [thelongest...nglast.com]
Yes, The Creators of This Website Are Morons [thelongest...nglast.com]
Funny (Score:1, Insightful)
Screw this (Score:5, Funny)
How far we've come in 12 years!
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Nostalgic indeed (Score:4, Funny)
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First audio ad (Score:1)
Which word are you supposed to click on? (Score:4, Funny)
I mean if you click one word or the other they will take you to different internets.
Banner Ads are dead (Score:1)
I wonder . . . (Score:1)
Re:I wonder . . . (Score:1, Informative)
DIGITAL WILL BE GIVING A PRODUCT PRESENTATION OF THE NEWEST MEMBERS OF THE
DECSYSTEM-20 FAMILY; THE DECSYSTEM-2020, 2020T, 2060, AND 2060T. THE
DECSYSTEM-20 FAMILY OF COMPUTERS HAS EVOLVED FROM THE TENEX OPERATING SYSTEM
AND THE DECSYSTEM-10 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE. BOTH THE DECSYSTEM-2060T
AND 2020T OFFER FULL ARPANET SUPPORT UNDER THE TOPS-20 OPERATING SYSTEM.
THE DECSYSTEM-2060 IS AN UPWARD EXTENSION OF THE CURRENT DECSYSTEM 2040
AND 2050 FAMILY. THE DECSYS
Re:I wonder . . . (Score:2)
In the real world (Score:2)
AT&T's "You Will" campaign (Score:5, Informative)
ad-rag.com has the old TV commercials [ad-rag.com] -- but you have to pay €2 for the privilege.
Re:AT&T's "You Will" campaign (Score:2)
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Re:AT&T's "You Will" campaign (Score:2, Funny)
In an early variation of targeted advertising, possibly by region, my Oscar Mayer ads taught me B-O-L-O-G-N-A.
Re:AT&T's "You Will" campaign (Score:2)
Re:AT&T's "You Will" campaign (Score:2)
The point I was making was that I tend to think of those tapes as recent, and they're already 12 years old.
I mean, there are worse things. I have a tape with part of an episode of Miami Vice, and another with half of the premier of Werewolf on Fox.
And, since you asked, I saw Star Wars multiple times during its original theater run.
Satisfied I am old enough?
Too bad it wasn't patented... (Score:2)
First Slashdot Banner Ad (Score:2)
Slow news day? (Score:2)
fnord
AdBlock (Score:1)
468x60 (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:468x60 (Score:2, Funny)
Phooey. Prodigy used 'em circa 1987. (Score:2)
It was a joint venture of IBM and Sears, and was marketed as being a highly family-friendly
Re:Phooey. Prodigy used 'em circa 1987. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Phooey. Prodigy used 'em circa 1987. (Score:2)
On a similar note, I'm racking my brain and can't remember what the name of the software in the late 80's that became trendy for doing graphics over a BBS was. It was sort of like the graphics language
Re:Phooey. Prodigy used 'em circa 1987. (Score:2)
We were on there once during a lightning storm and our modem caught some extra juice and it melted the buzzer. Thank god it didn't waste the PC. That 286 was like $2400. I must have been about 7 years old at that time.
Doesn't look so old to me... (Score:1)
"Thousands of technical jobs online now.. added daily.. (Click to find your perfect job)! "
Hmm, did Yahoo hot jobs exists back then? Oh, right I need to RTFA!
Not the first banner ad (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.styla.com/images/port_prodigy_full.gif [styla.com]
One big ad (Score:2, Funny)
If this isn't a Slashvertisement, I don't know what is
Pot meet Kettle (Score:1)
Am I the only one... (Score:2, Funny)
Slashdot - The World's First Banner Ad - 3 hours ago
The more things change.... (Score:2)
Oh yea, banner ads are much more sexy and pleasant today.
Re:tads.biz (Score:1)
Well better than the milliondollar homepage idea anyway.
Re:tads.biz (Score:2)