A D B A N K

adbank is an archive of banner advertising from the 1990s and early 2000s web. The images were recovered from public web archives, chiefly the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, and are republished here for historical and educational interest. It is a personal, non-commercial project. Nobody is paid, nothing is sold, and no advertiser has any relationship with this site.

Every banner belongs to whoever made it. No ownership is claimed over any of them, and no licence to reuse them is granted here, because that is not this site's to give. Trade marks and logos belong to their owners and appear because they appeared in the original advertising.

Where a source publishes under a licence, that licence is named on the credits page. The code and the arrangement of the archive are the site's own work; the images are not.

If you hold the rights to a banner and want it gone, or you have found something here that should not be served, it will be removed. No argument, no forms, no waiting for a legal threat.

Send the address of the banner's page, the one that looks like /adbank/b/<id>, or the image URL, via ezrakruger.cc. Removals are usually done the same day.

Removing a banner takes it out of rotation and stops the archive serving the file. Copies already sitting in somebody's browser or in a CDN may persist for up to a day after that.

There is no tolerance for this, in any form. That covers imagery, text advertising it, links to it, and the shock-value jokes about it that some 1990s banners were defaced with. None of it belongs in an archive and none of it will be served.

Anything of this kind is removed the moment it is known about, without waiting for a complaint to be verified, and is reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and to law enforcement where that applies. The file is deleted, not merely hidden, and its source is checked for anything else from the same place.

To report something: send the banner's page address or image URL via ezrakruger.cc. Reports of this kind go to the front of the queue. You do not need to explain yourself, prove anything, or give your name.

Screening rejects this material on sight, and an animation is checked across its frames rather than only its first, because a banner can look ordinary until its last one. If something reaches you anyway, it is a failure of that screening and worth reporting even if you assume somebody else already has.

These are real advertisements from a period when the web was less careful than it is now. Some of them make claims that were untrue at the time. Some advertise businesses that no longer exist, or that were dishonest while they did. A few are dark patterns and outright scams, kept because that is part of the historical record. Nothing here is an endorsement of any product, offer or claim, and no offer shown is still valid.

Every banner is screened before it can be served, automatically, for nudity and for adult and abusive content. Automatic screening is not perfect and this archive is large. If something got through, report it and it will be pulled.

You are welcome to. That is what the site is for, it costs nothing, and there is no sign-up, no key and no tracking of your visitors.

What you embed is chosen at random from the archive, so what appears on your page is not something you picked and not something this site vetted for your particular audience. If that matters for where you are putting it, narrow the filters, or use a single fixed banner from its own page instead of the rotating embed.

Please do not hammer it. There is no rate limit today because nobody has needed one.

No accounts, no analytics, no advertising cookies, no third-party trackers. Nothing about your visitors is sold or shared, because nothing about them is collected.

The guestbook keeps what you type into it, and a salted one-way hash of your network address, which exists only to stop one person flooding it. The raw address is not stored. The web server keeps ordinary request logs.

This runs on a small computer in a cupboard. It is provided as it is, with no guarantee that it works, stays up, keeps its current shape, or continues to exist. Anyone embedding it is choosing to depend on a hobby project, and should be comfortable with it going away.