This week the news brand celebrates the 30th anniversary of its website, ‘The Electronic Telegraph’, pioneering web publishing and news techniques which had never been tried before
The Electronic Telegraph launched at noon on 15 November 1994. The task was to upload the print version of the paper to the web, meaning that articles appeared online at 12.01am each day.
At the time, the process was crude and cumbersome with articles being downloaded from the print newspaper editing system onto tape and then uploaded as files onto a server.
Since then, the website has continued to innovate and evolve, like the worldwide web itself, building up into a round-the-clock and constantly updated product. The logs could be checked, as a list of files, with metrics on which had been the most popular.
To mark the 30th anniversary, the Telegraph will be free to access for 24 hours.
The website now delivers breaking news, onsite tools, interactive quizzes and evergreen content to readers and subscribers across news, health, money, sport, travel and lifestyle.
Chris Evans, editor of The Telegraph said: “Congratulations to all those who have worked so hard to make the Telegraph website such a success.”
