# Web Historian

> The story of the web and beyond

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## Key pages
- [About Web Historian](https://webhistorian.co.uk/about-web-historian/)

## Recent articles
- [The Rise and Fall of Teletext: How Britain Fell in Love With Pages of Coloured Pixels](https://webhistorian.co.uk/ceefax-teletext-history-britain-rise-and-fall/)
- [How Prestel Brought the Internet to British Living Rooms Thirty Years Too Early](https://webhistorian.co.uk/prestel-viewdata-history-uk-interactive-television/)
- [The History of UK Domain Names: Who Controlled .co.uk and Why It Mattered](https://webhistorian.co.uk/history-uk-domain-names-nominet-co-uk/)
- [Project Gutenberg’s British Cousins: The UK Volunteers Who Digitised Literature Before Google Did](https://webhistorian.co.uk/digital-text-archive-history-uk-volunteers-digitised-literature/)
- [How the UK Government Built GOV.UK and Why It Became a Global Template for Public Sector Web Design](https://webhistorian.co.uk/how-uk-government-built-govuk-global-template-public-sector-web-design/)
- [The Digital Pioneers of the British Music Press: How NME, Melody Maker and Kerrang! Tried to Survive the Web](https://webhistorian.co.uk/nme-online-history-uk-music-press-digital/)
- [Nominet, LINX and RIPE NCC: The Quiet Institutions That Actually Run Britain’s Internet](https://webhistorian.co.uk/nominet-linx-ripe-ncc-quiet-institutions-that-run-britains-internet/)
- [The History of Online Auction Culture in Britain: eBay UK, QXL and the Era When Everyone Sold Their Attic Online](https://webhistorian.co.uk/history-online-auction-culture-britain-ebay-uk-qxl/)
- [The Secret History of JANET: How Britain’s Academic Network Quietly Shaped the Public Internet](https://webhistorian.co.uk/secret-history-janet-britains-academic-network-shaped-public-internet/)
- [The History of the Internet in British Libraries: From CD-ROM Terminals to Free Public Wi-Fi](https://webhistorian.co.uk/history-internet-public-libraries-uk/)
- [How Channel 4’s 4oD Became Britain’s First Serious Attempt at Streaming Television](https://webhistorian.co.uk/channel-4-4od-britains-first-streaming-television/)
- [How Britain Learned to Regulate the Internet: From the Hands-Off 1990s to the Online Safety Act](https://webhistorian.co.uk/how-britain-learned-to-regulate-the-internet/)
- [The History of the UK Chip and PIN Rollout: How Britain Quietly Led the World in Payments Technology](https://webhistorian.co.uk/history-uk-chip-and-pin-rollout-payments-technology/)
- [The Birth of the BBC Website: How a Public Broadcaster Became One of the Most Visited Domains in Britain](https://webhistorian.co.uk/birth-of-bbc-website-history-bbc-co-uk/)
- [The History of JANET: The Academic Network That Gave British Universities the Internet Before Everyone Else](https://webhistorian.co.uk/history-of-janet-academic-network-british-universities-internet/)
- [When the NHS Went Digital: The Troubled History of NPfIT and Britain’s Biggest IT Project](https://webhistorian.co.uk/nhs-national-programme-for-it-history-npfit/)
- [How UK Games Developers Shaped the Early Internet: From Bedroom Coders to Online Multiplayer Pioneers](https://webhistorian.co.uk/uk-games-developers-internet-history-online-gaming/)
- [The Digital Dark Age at Companies House: How British Business Records Nearly Vanished from the Web](https://webhistorian.co.uk/digital-dark-age-companies-house-british-business-records/)
- [The History of UK Online Banking: From First Direct’s Phone Revolution to Egg’s Digital Accounts](https://webhistorian.co.uk/history-of-uk-online-banking-first-direct-egg/)
- [How the ARPANET Became the Internet: The Cold War Origins of Modern Networking](https://webhistorian.co.uk/how-the-arpanet-became-the-internet-cold-war-origins-modern-networking/)

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