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Marc | 14:16 UK time, Tuesday, 11 December 2007

Saturday December 15th marks a significant anniversary.

It's the date that the was issued in 1994, and the date that the was first released in 1965 - but for the purposes of iPM, it's also the date back in 1997 that Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ online started its full service.

So when this Saturday's iPM goes to air, bbc.co.uk will be 10 years old, and we'll be marking the occasion.

Some of the developers will be telling us about the traumatic start of the service - technical problems, concerns over management, worries over content.

And we may even ask what you'll be able to do on bbc.co.uk ten years from now.

Here's how the home page looked in the very early days:

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This is another example of bbc.co.uk from that time:

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By March 1998, it looked like this:

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And by February 2002, this was the home page:

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