It's 15 years since the BBC News website launched. At the time, in 1997, there were fewer than eight million people online in the UK, a figure which has mushroomed to more than 50 million today.
This chart shows how traffic to BBC News online has grown, alongside some key technological milestones. Click on the links to see front pages from major stories over the last decade and a half.
Clinton impeached
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Jill Dando murdered
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Gore-Bush election
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9/11 attacks in the US
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Queen Mother dies
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War in Iraq
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Beslan school siege
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7 July terror attacks
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Saddam Hussein executed
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Gordon Brown becomes PM
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Barack Obama becomes first black president
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General Election 2010
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Death of Bin Laden
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Royal pregnancy
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