A D B A N K
SPECIAL THANKS
Drew 
, the button in the footer of
every page here, and gave it to the archive for nothing. It is
theirs; adbank only has permission to use it for linking to
adbank. Take a copy for your own site.
Carries adbank as an installable widget, which is how it reaches people who would never paste raw HTML into a page. Every filter the archive has — size, category, colour, language — is a dropdown over there, and so is every appearance option, down to the border style. The WIDGET » button on the front page goes straight to it.
The thing all of this actually stands on. ezrakruger.cc is httpd, and the raw file dump at /adbank-files/img/ is a plain directory listing off it rather than a page dressed up as one. The picker and the API are a small Python program; the floor under them has been doing the same job since 1995, which is older than most of the banners in here.
TESTERS
SOURCES
adbank collected none of this itself. Every banner in the archive was recovered and kept by somebody else first.
22,915 banners mined from 1,384,355 Wayback snapshots of 77,747 URLs, taken from six printed internet directories published between 1999 and 2001 in the US and China. Assembled by Richard Lewei Huang and Yufeng Zhao and published in the Journal of Open Humanities Data; the data is on Zenodo. Licensed CC BY 4.0, which is why this credit is not optional.
818 banners with hand-written alt text, curated subjects and per-item adult flags. The best-described source here: that alt text is the reason an embedded banner reads sensibly to a screen reader.
The Internet Archive's search over the GIFs of GeoCities. Harvested here one search term at a time, and the term is what gives most of these banners the category they end up in.
The Wayback CDX index, queried directly for archived GIFs on the old ad networks: DoubleClick, LinkExchange, Burst, ValueClick and the rest. Politely, four workers at a time, honouring Retry-After. Without archive.org none of this exists at all.
The canonical wall of buttons, and the reason anyone still knows what size a button is meant to be.
The buttons above are the real ones, taken from the sites they belong to. Two are stand-ins: GifCities is an Internet Archive service with no separate button of its own, so it flies the Archive's, and Banner Depot 2000 has none at all, so its slot shows Zenodo, where the dataset actually lives. That last one is Zenodo's own logo cut to 88×31 rather than anything drawn here. Everything else on this site's terms is on the terms page.
ADBANK FAMILY
Users, affiliates and friends: every site flying the adbank button, and everyone who has signed the guestbook and left an address. Their buttons, linking to them.
Collected automatically, and every button is a copy kept here rather than a hotlink, so this page never costs anybody bandwidth. Only the front page of a site is read, robots.txt is obeyed, and nothing about your visitors is recorded — the archive knows which sites display the button and not who looked at it. If yours is here and you would rather it were not, fill in this form and it comes off straight away.
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