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Explore the history of online banking UK First Direct Egg – from telephone banking in the 1990s to the world’s first standalone internet bank.
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Explore ARPANET history and how a US defence project in the 1960s gave birth to packet switching, TCP/IP, and ultimately the internet we use today.
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What happened to GeoCities? Explore the rise, the chaotic brilliance, and the devastating 2009 deletion of the web’s most beloved early destination.
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Explore the history of search engines from Yahoo directories to AltaVista and Ask Jeeves — the forgotten tools that shaped how we first navigated the web.
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Explore the internet in UK schools history, from the National Grid for Learning and Lottery-funded computer suites to filtering software and acceptable-use forms.
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Explore the history of online privacy, from 1990s server logs and cookies to modern fingerprinting, data brokers, and the GDPR battles that followed.
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Explore the forgotten search engines before Google — AltaVista, Lycos, Ask Jeeves and Yahoo. How they worked, why they failed, and what changed everything.
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Discover the JANET academic network UK internet history — how British universities shared files and email years before the public web arrived.
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Explore the history of browser cookies, from Lou Montulli’s 1994 invention at Netscape to GDPR consent banners and the modern privacy-first web.
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Explore the history of online forums, from bulletin board systems and Usenet newsgroups to early web communities that shaped how we behave online today.
