Beeb

No, sounds like a group of people who would meet in a pub every week for tea, biscuits and to ramble on about how fast and expensive their computer is. Sounds fun

Not quite, it was a Bulletin Board service that eventually provided access to the web. The address was www.bbcnc.org.uk, and that until the introduction of bbc.co.uk was the only BBC website
Ac ouple of Usenet posts about it Here
and here

Ooh, 'The Net', I remember that - cheers for those links, it's interesting reading people talking about "this web thing" in 1994...

The Net, with the 'databurst' during the credits which you had to record and then play back in slo-mo to read anything. I remember writing down the web addresses and then going to Cyberia Cafe to look them up.

I feel old

oh I forgot about databursts. How 2 used to have one, and I'm sure either art attack or blue peter or one of the shows that made stuff used to do one with the instructions for their models.

Genius technology.

I remember those appearing at the end of cookery programmes on the television, where you had to tape it and then pause it to take down the recipe.

edit: Adding to Hyma's list of programmes with infobursts, the CBBC programme Xchange used to have them for what I assume was a very short period.

Bad Inlfuence had one too.

Points of View's email address used to be pov@bbcnc.org.uk.

Archive.org has the homepage from 1996 |

and you had to have a good VCR or else the freeze framed picture would jump allover the place and you wouldn't be able to read anything

Here's the original BBC.co.uk homepage from 1997 (before the major rebrand): http://web.archive.org/web/19970720225107/http://www0.bbc.co.uk/index.html