Banner Depot 2000 is an interactive archive containing 22,915 web ad banners that existed on Chinese- and English-language web pages in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The banners are extracted from archived web page snapshots of 77,747 URLs featured in six printed Internet directory books published between 1999 and 2001 in the United States and China.

To create this archive, we retrieved available snapshots of these URLs from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. We then extracted images adhering to common ad banner dimensions and extracted text data from each image using optical character recognition.