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First online journalism website
The University of Florida’s journalism school launches what is believed to be the first journalism site on the internet. -
UK's first newspaper website
The electronic Telegraph is launched as the UK's first newspaper website. -
BBC online launched
BBC Online starts as a full service. In less than one year it offers more than 140,000 pages of content and 61,000 pages of news. -
First RSS feed
The first version of RSS headline syndication is developed by Netscape. The service means that when websites publish a news story and an RSS file is updated, other sites can now feature its headline with a link back to the original. RSS was abandoned by Netscape but continued to be developed by UserLand. RSS was to become pivotally important to the development of news aggregators and weblogs. -
Regional news hasn't caught up
A study by City University's Department of Journalism finds that only 11 per cent of regional newspaper journalists have access to the internet. -
First interactive newspaper
The International Herald Tribune launches a radically redesigned site. The site enables users to flick over page turns and store headlines for viewing later. The redesign is widely praised. -
Magazines follow the online trend
IPC Media revamps its beme.com portal for women and integrates content from its Marie Claire and Now titles. -
First digitised archive
The New York Times becomes the first newspaper to digitise its entire archive. The whole archive, dating back to 1851, is to be included in a searchable database. -
Europe's first pay wall
Spain's largest daily paper – El Pais – becomes the first European national daily paper to charge for access to all of its web content. -
Blogging is getting bigger
UK weblogging firm 20six says webloggers are meeting the demand for independent, reliable web-based news. 20six hosts more than 15,000 weblogs and attracts around 250,000 unique users every month. -
Material using mobiles
Eyewitnesses sending photos and reports on mobile phones provide the first on-location material ahead of professional journalists. Professional photographers worry that their jobs are threatened by the rise of 'citizen journalism', but many publishers feel the content provides a valuable supplement to their core coverage. -
First daily podcasts
Telegraph.co.uk claims to be the first UK national newspaper to start podcasting daily, publishing an audio summary of news and columns read by some of its journalists. -
Integrating comment features
UK newspaper the Guardian launches an extensive new online comment project, creating a pool of several hundred commentators and experts. Editor-in-chief Emily Bell predicts that the future of debate and discussion will be online.