Oh man, soon it'll be a teenager!
Last year I posted on the official birthday AdLand's Birthday - Nine years old today! [1], April 1.
This year I thought I'd avoid the jokester date in case y'all might think I was kidding. Adland really is ten years old.
It all started in this house up on the twin peaks in San Francisco ten years ago. A dorky geocities homepage saw the light of day....(thanks to Anthony Marella [2] for the photo)
One of the early rants has been saved here "Separated at birth? Three drinks do the same thing" [3], as twin ads was the main gripe back then. Some other early rants are still in the adrant [4] section, some have gone all over the web and been translated to Spanish, others made it to print in various advertising business journals.
The waybackmachine saved a few incarnations of adland's front page, like this one from 1998.
So from that wee page with a couple of badland cases, a few adrants, excerpts from adbooks and loads of adlinks, and in 1999 a 950 ad strong commercial collection - we now have 32403 commercials [5], 2984 news postings [6], 194 badland [7] cases, 655 ad links [8], 73066 registered adgrunts and the front page has been viewed by a whopping 43265833 visitors since we started counting back in 2000. (*public stats page removed 2007)
So happy birthday to Adland!
(I tried to find any images of yours truly and a computer from wayback then, but all I could dig up was this:
- aaaw, I'm just a baby!)
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