Cool Site of the Day is an early website created in August 1994 and originally maintained by Glenn Davis.

As part of the proceedings, Davis held an email poll on a shortlist of five websites that had previously been distinguished as a cool site.

[10] On October 3, 1996, the second Cool Site of the Year awards ceremony was held at Webster Hall, a nightclub in the East Village, Manhattan.

By the end of 1997, Cool Site of the Day had spawned thousands of imitators, grown into an "eight-person mini-e-publishing empire," [11] and attracted millions of page-views a month.

[13] Within a week, it had returned stripped bare of all previous content, including any trace of the Cool Site of the Day archives.