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Explore the BBC website history and how bbc.co.uk launched in 1994 — from sceptical executives to hand-coded pages and a public service vision that shaped the web.
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Explore the JANET academic network history UK — how Britain’s universities got email, newsgroups and the web years before the public could dial in.
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Explore the NHS National Programme for IT history — NPfIT’s ambitions, its spectacular collapse, and what it changed about UK public sector tech.
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Discover how UK games developers pioneered online multiplayer and digital distribution long before Steam, from ZX Spectrum bedrooms to the early internet.
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How the digitisation of Companies House records transformed public access to UK business information, and the commercial data resellers that filled the gap.
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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.
