1998 Webby Awards
The 1998 Webby Awards were held on March 6, 1998, at the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts, and were the first event ever to be broadcast live via the Web in 3D. The "People's Voice" awards, chosen by online poll, received 100,000 cumulative votes that year.
The Web magazine, which was hosting the awards, was closed down by its parent company IDG shortly before the awards, and the ceremony continued thereafter under the management of Tiffany Shlain, who IDG had hired in 1996 to coordinate the awards. The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences was constituted that year as the judging panel for the awards, continues to do so as of the 2007 awards.
Nominees and winners
Winners and nominees:| Category | Winner | Other nominees |
Net Art | Entropy8 | Ada's web Atlas RGB Gallery sfgallery |
Community | The WELL | bianca.com The Palace Tripod WBS |
Education | StarChild | Educational Resources Information Center Learn2.com The Home Education Page The Smithsonian |
Film | The Internet Movie Database | E! Online Film.com Mr. Showbiz Rough Cut |
Games | BeZerk | GAMECENTER.COM GameSpot Imagine Games PlaySite |
Health | Mayo Clinic Health O@sis | Ask Dr. Weil Reuters Health Information Services The Body: A Multimedia AIDS and HIV Resource thriveonline.com |
Home | BabyCenter | Better Homes & Gardens Online Disney's Daily Blast Family.com Virtual Garden |
Living | gURL | PlanetOut SWOON Virtual Jerusalem Wedding Channel |
Money/Business | The Vanguard Group | International Real Estate Digest Nolo press Self-Help Law Center The Financial Aid Information Page U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Music | Experience Music Project | Addicted to Noise MTV Online TheDJ AOL Radio Tunes.com |
News | NEWS.COM | ABCNEWS.com MSNBC The New York Times on the Web Wired News |
Politics+Law | CNN/TIME All Politics | Annoy.com Law Journal EXTRA! The Black World Today The Smoking Gun |
Print+Zines | Salon Magazine | alt.culture Literary Kicks Merriam-Webster The Libyrinth |
Radio | AudioNet | Antique Radios Online DigiBand Radio The Art Bell Web Site Uncle Ricky's Reel Top 40 Repository |
Science | Exploratorium: ExploraNet | IBM Patent Server Mars Pathfinder Mission Paleontology Without Walls Scientific American |
Sports | CBS Sportsline | CHARGED ESPN SportsZone Outside Online Science of Hockey |
Travel | Citysearch New York City | Lonely Planet on-line Preview Travel Salon|Wanderlust Travelocity |
TV | PBS Online | GIST TV Listings Guide NBC.com Sci-Fi Channel: The Dominion TV Guide Entertainment Network |
Weird | Bert is Evil | BLAIR Museum of Dirt The Crash Site The Onion |