The Global Network Navigator (GNN) was the first commercial web publication and the first web site to offer clickable advertisements, now commonly referred to as "banner ads." The first such internet ad was sold by GNN to Heller Ehrman LLP.
GNN was founded in May 1993 by Tim O'Reilly and Dale Dougherty of O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) of Sebastopol, California. It was launched in August 1993 at InterOp in San Francisco. It was i...
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The Global Network Navigator (GNN) was the first commercial web publication and the first web site to offer clickable advertisements, now commonly referred to as "banner ads." The first such internet ad was sold by GNN to Heller Ehrman LLP.
GNN was founded in May 1993 by Tim O'Reilly and Dale Dougherty of O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) of Sebastopol, California. It was launched in August 1993 at InterOp in San Francisco. It was inspired by Viola, a WWW browser that introduced enhanced HTML features like formatting, graphics, scripting and embedded applets.
The free service was divided into five parts:
The Online Whole Internet Catalog - a forerunner of internet directory services like Yahoo! - was organized into ten sections:
In the original press release that introduced GNN, the Online Whole Internet Catalog was described this way: "... subscribers can not only read about these subjects, they can actually connect to them with the click of a button." GNN described...
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