Browse with Vintage Ad Browser
March 9, 2012
Sometimes search is not going to deliver the nostalgia payload.
Here’s an interesting service for finding print advertisements: tap into the Vintage Ad Browser and step back in time. The site presents, by category, “100,000+ vintage advertisements to explore”, going back nearly to the turn of last century. The site’s About page explains:
“Vintage Ad Browser was created in 2009/2010 and released in 2010, by Philipp Lenssen from Germany, currently living in China. This site aims to collect vintage ads from a variety of sources, including comic books, CD-Roms, websites, APIs, your submissions, book, magazine & comic book scans, and more. At the moment, this site contains 123,311 ads. Vintage Ad Browser has a sister site called Cover Browser, started in 2006 – please have a look.”
Interesting project. We find that here search gives way to browsing, just like in 1993. Reminisce with ads for everything from Airlines to Xmas.
The geek in me thinks the Cover Browser site is pretty nifty, too. It is a collection of cover art, mostly from comics but from books and other sources as well. You may recall Mr. Lenssen. He developed Google Blogoscoped, an interesting news service.
Cynthia Murrell, March 9, 2012
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