Happy Birthday, bbc.co.uk
Saturday December 15th marks a significant anniversary.
It's the date that the Downing Street Declaration was issued in 1994, and the date that the Sound of Music was first released in 1965 - but for the purposes of iPM, it's also the date back in 1997 that BBC online started its full service.
So when this Saturday's iPM goes to air, bbc.co.uk will be 10 years old, and we'll be marking the occasion.
Some of the developers will be telling us about the traumatic start of the service - technical problems, concerns over management, worries over content.
And we may even ask what you'll be able to do on bbc.co.uk ten years from now.
Here's how the home page looked in the very early days:
This is another example of bbc.co.uk from that time:
By March 1998, it looked like this:
And by February 2002, this was the home page:
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Comments
What's gone wrong with the British Broadcasting Corporation?
The BBC is known the world over, its good name was created in the days of Lord Reith the first Director General, it was his values that established the BBC’s position for first-rate, factually reliable and impartial broadcasting with fiercely protected independence.
It was the people’s broadcaster, funded by the people, working on behalf of the people and getting it right.
Isn’t it now time to stop throwing licence payer’s money at ludicrously poor 24-hour news services or so-called digital channels, which very few people watch or wasting yet more money on game shows, fame shows, fluff, and froth?
The BBC once had a reliability that was worth paying for. If we can’t be promised at least that much, I think the BBC should seek its funding elsewhere.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.bbc.co.uk
re your item on the formative bbc.co.uk this facility keeps a good log of old sites
You can try this site, looks back in time on sites:
http://web.archive.org
Link for the BBC
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.bbc.co.uk
http://web.archive.org/web/19970613204835/http://www.bbc.co.uk/
Have fun
Simon