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Listen: early website mention from 20 years ago

By James Cridland for media.info
Posted 11 June 2015, 7.53am edt

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According to the BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix twitter account, today marks twenty years since Pete Tong first read out the website address on-air.

Below, listen to a recording of that moment, on 11 June 1995: and a reminder that website addresses have not, quite, always been as snappy as "bbc.co.uk/radio1".

The BBC used the "bbcnc.org.uk" address, heard here, until December 1997. The BBC Networking Club was a not-for-profit social networking site, costing £12 a month to join.

Altavista, widely regarded as the first comprehensive search engine, launched later that year in December. Google launched three years later, in 1998.

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James Cridland — James runs media.info, and is a radio futurologist: a consultant, writer and public speaker who concentrates on the effect that new platforms and technology are having on the radio business. He also publishes a free daily newsletter about podcasting, Podnews, and a weekly radio trends newsletter.