About

This page is a collection of digital advertisements, mostly sourced from the Internet Archive! This is purely for enjoyment; none of the products/companies/services are approved of. Most of them were probably just popup ad virus garbage.

I like ads and ephemera and think they're interesting; it's also notable that while there are many collections of physical ads and particularly high-budget ad campaigns, there doesn't seem to have been much effort (that I can find, anyway!) to preserve web-specific advertisements. Even though they're a big part of our culture and shape how we use the internet and always have been!

This isn't necessarily a 100% complete archive of every single ad that's ever existed, but it does aim to have A Whole Lot of them!

I (Xo) speak and understand exclusively English, so the ads I collect are almost all exclusively going to be in English from the English-speaking web; I'm happy to accept submissions of ads in other languages, though!