The 6th Annual

Webby Awards The Webby Awards are awards for excellence on the Internet presented annually by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a judging body composed of over two thousand industry experts and technology innovators. Categories includ ...

was held on June 21, 2002, at San Francisco's Legion of Honor auditorium. It was presented by the

International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences or IADAS is an international organization founded in 1998 in New York City to help drive the creative, technical, and professional progress of the Internet and evolving forms of interactive and ...

and was hosted by Tiffany Shlain, the Webby Awards' founder, and Maya Draisin. Coming on the heels of the

dot-com bubble The dot-com bubble (dot-com boom, tech bubble, or the Internet bubble) was a stock market bubble in the late 1990s, a period of massive growth in the use and adoption of the Internet. Between 1995 and its peak in March 2000, the Nasdaq Compo ...

(which led to a reduced 2001 awards ceremony), a 2002 Internet bubble forced cutbacks in the event budget for this ceremony as well.Rose, Derek. "City Nets Webby Awards." '' Daily News''. 5 April 2005.

Nominees and winners

References

''Winners and nominees are generally named according to the organization or website winning the award, although the recipient is, technically, the

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firm or internal department that created the winning site and in the case of

corporate website A website (also written as a web site) is a collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server. Examples of notable websites are Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Wikipe ...

s, the designer's client. Web links are provided for informational purposes, both in the most recently available

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version before the awards ceremony and, where available, the current website. Many older websites no longer exist, are redirected, or have been substantially redesigned.''

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Webby Awards, 2002 2002 2002 awards in the United States 2002 in San Francisco June 2002 events in the United States 2002 in Internet culture