The World's First Banner Ad

According to a post over at Slashdot (and I've heard it from other sources as well), the first banner ad appeared on the web on Oct 25, 1994. It was an AT&T ad, and it was showed shown on the Hotwired.com website.


Ugly, ain't it? Can you believe AT&T paid somebody money to design that? Scary!

Hmmmm....I wonder what the click-thru rate was?