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# BBC on the WWW: the website from 1996 to now
- URL: https://interhacktives.mymagic.page/this-is-how-the-bbc-website-looked-from-1996-to-now/
- Published: 2015-11-17T13:35:46.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T13:35:46.000Z
- Author: David Knowles
- Tags: News, BBC, evolution, wayback machine, website, #Migrated-1793717950415, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-11-03 14:59

We decided to take a look through the [Wayback Machine](http://archive.org/web/) tool to watch the evolution of the Beeb online. The machine is a neat tool that has archived 445 billion web pages.

On the 21st December, 1996, John Major was Prime Minister; Mars Attacks, 101 Dalmatians and the English Patient were in cinemas; and the [BBC’s website](https://web.archive.org/web/19961221203254/http:/www0.bbc.co.uk/) looked like this…

![21 Dece 1996 image 1](http://www.interhacktives.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/21-Dece-1996-image-1-e1447683239452.jpg)

> **That's a lot of blue.** 
>  
> **Later, in April 1997 – we can see past the homepage....**

![Image 2](http://www.interhacktives.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Image-2.jpg)

![IMAGE 3](http://www.interhacktives.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/IMAGE-3.jpg)

![Oct 1997 bbc IMAGE 4 ]](http://www.interhacktives.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Oct-1997-bbc-IMAGE-4-.jpg)

> **Classic BBC, all the content leaning to the left...** 
>  
> **By December, a recognisable website was taking shape.**  
>  
> **Let's fast forward.** 
>  
> **This is the BBC website at half past ten on the morning of 11th September 2001.**

![BBC morning Sept 11 2001](http://www.interhacktives.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/BBC-morning-Sept-11-2001.jpg)

![BBC 2001 terror](http://www.interhacktives.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/BBC-2001-terror.jpg)

![Iraq 2003](http://www.interhacktives.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Iraq-2003.jpg)

> **By the 2010 General Election, the BBC website starts to balance photos and text more effectively.** 
>  
> **And this is what the site looks like today...** 
>  
> ***The BBC's website has certainly come a long way since 1996\. Let's see that again...***