1997 Webby Awards

The 1997 Webby Awards were the first of the annual Webby Awards, and also the first-ever nationally televised awards ceremony devoted to the Internet. 700 people attended the event on March 6, 1997 at Bimbo's Night Club in San Francisco, California [cite news|publisher=Forbes|accessdate=2007-01-03|title=Webbys 2.0|author=Rachel Rosmarin|date=2006-06-09|url=http://www.forbes.com/technology/2006/06/09/webby_internet_award_cx_rr_0609webby.html]

Nominees and winners

:"(from http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/winners-1997.php)"

Panelists

Whereas in later years the panelists were official members of International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, in 1997 the awards were chosen and given by IDG's "The Web Magazine", which appointed a panel to judge the competition. [cite news|accessdate=2008-01-08|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle|title=The Woman Behind the Webbies:S.F., N.Y. woo Web award impresario Tiffany Shlain|author=Carolyn Said|date=1998-07-30|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/1998/07/30/BU52646.DTL]

The panel of judges was: [cite web|url=http://www.rageboy.com/webby.html|publisher=Entropy Gradient Reversals|author=Christopher Locke|title=Take-a-Hike: A Very Special Invitation from EGR] :

External links

* [http://www.webbyawards.com webbyawards.com] - official awards website
* [http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/ flash gallery of award winners]

Notes

"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."