The history of beeb.com

[almostwitty]

Way way back in the mists of dotcom time (1999), I worked for beeb.com - basically the website for the commercial arm for the BBC. Unfortunately, it eventually became the victim of a rather bitter squabble between public service BBC and BBC Worldwide, and the public service side won.

I've just stumbled across this article from The Economist which succinctly goes into the history of beeb.com. Unfortunately, it's been put on a Facebook forum which isn't exactly accessible, so without any copyright permissions whatsoever, I'm putting it up here. :)
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