1999 Webby Awards
The 1999
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
Nominees and winners
Category | Webby Award winner | People's Voice winner | Other nominees |
Art | jodi.org |
Doors of Perception |
Last Will and Testament |
SFMOMA Presents Bill Viola | |||
The multi-cultural Recycler | |||
Commerce | Amazon.com |
eBay |
CDNOW |
The Gap Online | |||
The Tire Rack | |||
Community | SeniorNet |
iVillage.com |
MiningCo.com |
Talk City | |||
Third Age | |||
Education | Journey North |
N/A | Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators |
The Global Schoolhouse | |||
The Math Forum | |||
Web66 | |||
Fashion | PaperMag |
London Fashion Week |
Hint Magazine |
Lumiere | |||
w.&l.t. online | |||
Financial Services | The Motley Fool |
ClearStation | |
E-Loan | |||
Investor Home (Archived 2 March 1999 via Wayback) | |||
The Wall Street Journal | |||
Games | Gamers Central |
N/A | Digital Addiction |
Java on the Brain | |||
Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator | |||
ShockRave | |||
Health | InteliHealth |
Mayo Clinic Health Oasis |
mediconsult.com |
onhealth | |||
thriveonline | |||
Humor | The Onion |
Bezerk | |
Red Meat | |||
Suck | |||
The Simpleton | |||
Living | BabyCenter (Archived 2 March 1999 via Wayback) |
Epicurious (Archived 2 March 1999 via Wayback) |
Garden.com |
The Knot | |||
The Yuckiest Site on The Internet | |||
Movie and Film | Internet Movie Database |
Coming Attractions | |
Dark Horizons (http://www.darkhorizons.com) | |||
Film.com (Archived 2 March 1999 via Wayback) | |||
Ireland Film and Television Net | |||
Music | SonicNet |
mp3 |
bobdylan.com |
Spinner | |||
The Ultimate Band List | |||
News | CNN Interactive (Archived 20 June 2000 via Wayback) |
BBC News Online | |
MSNBC | |||
Rough & Tumble | |||
The New York Times | |||
Politics and Law | The California Voter Foundation (Archived 2 March 1999 via Wayback) |
Free! The Freedom Forum Online |
FindLaw |
OpenSecrets | |||
Web White & Blue | |||
Print and Zines | Salon Magazine |
Smithsonian Magazine |
Feed |
Nerve | |||
Slate | |||
Radio | Freespeech Internet Television |
Spinner |
ImagineRadio |
Internet Underground Music Archive | |||
SonicNet | |||
Science | Exploratorium |
NASA Space Science Laboratory |
Scientific American |
The University of Arizona - The Biology Project | |||
Union of Concerned Scientists | |||
Sports | SportsPages.com |
The Sporting News |
GolfWeb |
Quokka Sports | |||
SoccerNet | |||
Television | PBS Online(Archived 2 March 1999 via Wayback) |
Comedy Central | |
Gist TV Listings | |||
TVGen | |||
UltimateTV | |||
Travel | biztravel.com |
Travelocity |
Expedia Travel |
Lonely Planet On-line | |||
TerraQuest (Archived 2 March 1999 via Wayback) | |||
Webby Technical Achievement | Amazon.com |
My Yahoo! |
AltaVista Translation with Systran |
ConferenceTracker (http://N/A) | |||
FedEx | |||
Weird | Superbad.com |
Absurd.org |
Disinformation |
Trepan.com | |||
Unamerican Activities |
References
Winners and nominees are generally named according to the organization or website winning the award, although the recipient is, technically, the
- ^ "Glitz, goofiness mark Webby Awards ceremony". 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.