Banner Depot 2000 is an interactive archive of web banner ads from the late 1990s and early 2000s. It currently contains 22,915 web ad banners that existed on Chinese- and English-language web pages from that period. The banners are crawled from archived snapshots of 77,747 URLs featured in six printed Internet directory books published between 1999 and 2001 in the United States and China.

The full dataset of banner ads is available for download at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8408539. To learn more about how this dataset was compiled, check out our dataset paper available at https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.164.

This website (vintage.banner-depot-2000.net) is designed for older web browsers running on computers made in the late 1990s-early 2000s. Our full site at banner-depot-2000.net has more banner search and filtering features, as well as a poetry maker, where visitors can compose found poetry using banner ad frames.

Made by: Richard Lewei Huang and Yufeng Zhao.

A Switcheristic Telecommunications Project.

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