1999 Webby Awards
The 1999 Webby Awards were held on March 18, 1999, at the Herbst Theater (War memorial Opera House) in San Francisco, California. IDG, which still owned the awards organization, continued to retain Tiffany Shlain to produce the awards even though the magazine division she had been working for had been shut down. Mayor Rudy Giuliani had lobbied to move the ceremony to New York City, but San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown interceded with Schlain by promising the city's support, including hosting a post-award party at the newly remodeled City Hall.[1]
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin arrived wearing rollerblades and metallic capes, and remained in the opera hall lobby to grant interviews while most guests were watching the awards in the theater. The event was noted for the famous incident in which a representative of Jodi.org, which had won in the arts category, called the event participants "Ugly corporate sons-of-bitches" in his acceptance speech and tossed his trophy to the audience.[2] The organizers asked PricewaterhouseCoopers to tabulate and ensure security for the "People's Voice" winners, chosen by online voting.[3]
Nominees and winners edit
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (December 2014) |
| Category | Webby Award winner | People's Voice winner | Other nominees |
| Art | jodi.org ( via Wayback) | Doors of Perception ( via Wayback) | Last Will and Testament ( via Wayback) |
| SFMOMA Presents Bill Viola ( via Wayback) | |||
| The multi-cultural Recycler ( via Wayback) | |||
| Commerce | Amazon.com ( via Wayback) | eBay ( via Wayback) | CDNOW ( via Wayback) |
| The Gap Online ( via Wayback) | |||
| The Tire Rack ( via Wayback) | |||
| Community | SeniorNet ( via Wayback) | iVillage.com ( via Wayback) | MiningCo.com ( via Wayback) |
| Talk City ( via Wayback) | |||
| Third Age ( via Wayback) | |||
| Education | Journey North ( via Wayback) | N/A | Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators ( via Wayback) |
| The Global Schoolhouse ( via Wayback) | |||
| The Math Forum ( via Wayback) | |||
| Web66 ( via Wayback) | |||
| Fashion | PaperMag ( via Wayback) | London Fashion Week ( via Wayback) | Hint Magazine ( via Wayback) |
| Lumiere ( via Wayback) | |||
| w.&l.t. online ( via Wayback) | |||
| Financial Services | The Motley Fool ( via Wayback) | ClearStation ( via Wayback) | |
| E-Loan ( via Wayback) | |||
| Investor Home ( via Wayback) | |||
| The Wall Street Journal ( via Wayback) | |||
| Games | Gamers Central (Archived 24 February 1999 via Wayback) | N/A | Digital Addiction ( via Wayback) |
| Java on the Brain ( via Wayback) | |||
| Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator ( via Wayback) | |||
| ShockRave ( via Wayback) | |||
| Health | InteliHealth ( via Wayback) | Mayo Clinic Health Oasis ( via Wayback) | mediconsult.com ( via Wayback) |
| onhealth ( via Wayback) | |||
| thriveonline ( via Wayback) | |||
| Humor | The Onion ( via Wayback) | Bezerk (Archived 17 April 1999 via Wayback) | |
| Red Meat ( via Wayback) | |||
| Suck ( via Wayback) | |||
| The Simpleton ( via Wayback) | |||
| Living | BabyCenter ( via Wayback) | Epicurious ( via Wayback) | Garden.com ( via Wayback) |
| The Knot ( via Wayback) | |||
| The Yuckiest Site on The Internet ( via Wayback) | |||
| Movie and Film | Internet Movie Database ( via Wayback) | Coming Attractions ( via Wayback) | |
| Dark Horizons (http://www.darkhorizons.com) | |||
| Film.com ( via Wayback) | |||
| Ireland Film and Television Net ( via Wayback) | |||
| Music | SonicNet ( via Wayback) | mp3 ( via Wayback) | bobdylan.com ( via Wayback) |
| Spinner ( via Wayback) | |||
| The Ultimate Band List ( via Wayback) | |||
| News | CNN Interactive ( via Wayback) | BBC News Online ( via Wayback) | |
| MSNBC ( via Wayback) | |||
| Rough & Tumble ( via Wayback) | |||
| The New York Times ( via Wayback) | |||
| Politics and Law | The California Voter Foundation ( via Wayback) | Free! The Freedom Forum Online ( via Wayback) | FindLaw ( via Wayback) |
| OpenSecrets ( via Wayback) | |||
| Web White & Blue ( via Wayback) | |||
| Print and Zines | Salon Magazine ( via Wayback) | Smithsonian Magazine ( via Wayback) | Feed ( via Wayback) |
| Nerve ( via Wayback) | |||
| Slate ( via Wayback) | |||
| Radio | Freespeech Internet Television ( via Wayback) | Spinner ( via Wayback) | ImagineRadio ( via Wayback) |
| Internet Underground Music Archive ( via Wayback) | |||
| SonicNet ( via Wayback) | |||
| Science | Exploratorium ( via Wayback) | NASA Space Science Laboratory ( via Wayback) | Scientific American ( via Wayback) |
| The University of Arizona - The Biology Project ( via Wayback) | |||
| Union of Concerned Scientists ( via Wayback) | |||
| Sports | SportsPages.com ( via Wayback) | The Sporting News ( via Wayback) | GolfWeb ( via Wayback) |
| Quokka Sports ( via Wayback) | |||
| SoccerNet ( via Wayback) | |||
| Television | PBS Online ( via Wayback) | Comedy Central ( via Wayback) | |
| Gist TV Listings ( via Wayback) | |||
| TVGen ( via Wayback) | |||
| UltimateTV ( via Wayback) | |||
| Travel | biztravel.com ( via Wayback) | Travelocity ( via Wayback) | Expedia Travel ( via Wayback) |
| Lonely Planet On-line ( via Wayback) | |||
| TerraQuest (Archived 2 March 1999 via Wayback) | |||
| Webby Technical Achievement | Amazon.com ( via Wayback) | My Yahoo! ( via Wayback) | AltaVista Translation with Systran ( via Wayback) |
| ConferenceTracker (http://N/A) | |||
| FedEx ( via Wayback) | |||
| Weird | Superbad.com ( via Wayback) | Absurd.org ( via Wayback) | Disinformation ( via Wayback) |
| Trepan.com ( via Wayback) | |||
| Unamerican Activities ( via Wayback) | |||
References edit
Winners and nominees are generally named according to the organization or website winning the award, although the recipient is, technically, the web design firm or internal department that created the winning site and in the case of corporate websites, the designer's client. Web links are provided for informational purposes, both in the most recently available archive.org version before the awards ceremony and, where available, the current website. Many older websites no longer exist, are redirected, or have been substantially redesigned.
- ^ . CNN. 2000-05-12. Archived from the original on 2007-12-30. Retrieved 2008-01-02.
- ^ Rachel Chalmers (March 22, 1999). "Usual Suspects Takes Webbies in Five Words or Less". Computergram International. Archived from the original on July 14, 2012.
- ^ "PricewaterhouseCoopers Address On-Line Balloting Issues for Webby Awards". Business Wire. 1999-03-17. Retrieved 2008-01-03.
External links edit
- Official website