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ment this homepage regularly received over 200,000 hits a day.</figcaption></figure>Much like today, the websites reproduced virtually all of the text of the broadsheet newspapers and included regular news updates throughout the day. They also offered a range of additional resources, including back issues of all Internet editions of both titles.In August 1997, The Times and The Sunday Times became the first national newspapers to receive an audit certificate from ABC//electronic, the Internet sites auditor.<h1 id="1ef7">The IBM 1130</h1><figure id="9515"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*g4dKwj4ZtMrXYhdPbyn7aQ.jpeg"><figcaption>The new IBM 1130 computer console , September 1969</figcaption></figure>On September 9, 1969 The Times became the first newspaper in the world to use a computer to make calculations relating to share dealings and, at the same time, to typeset prices pages automatically. Prior to the introduction of the IBM 1130 — the oh so compact machine pictured above — stock prices were dealt with by hand. Collected daily from the City, new prices were marked in by clerical staff on paste-ups of the day’s published prices and then sent to the Composing Room for setting, where 38 machines were required to complete the work. With the introduction of the new technology the production process was reduced to just 2 ½ hours, enabling the prices to make the first edition.<figure id="6474"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*W4vNdbH6qn0Wm-6-oahQLA.jpeg"><figcaption>Staff in the Composing Room getting to grips with the IBM 1130, four days before the system went live, September 1969.</figcaption></figure>Below is the first share table produced using the

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new computer system, published in The Times on September 9, 1969. With the introduction of the IBM 1130 the newspaper was also able to provide a new service for its readers — it could now supply seven pieces of information per stock, up from four, for a total of over 1,500 stocks. An investor’s dream!<figure id="9f19"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*oYYQvurMVv0FgLQQchVMkw.jpeg"><figcaption>The new Times share page, September 9, 1969.</figcaption></figure><h1 id="155f">Atex arrives</h1>For the journalists of The Times the advent of the electronic age arrived on January 24, 1986 — in the slightly bulky form of the Atex computer system. News International, today News UK, was the first UK newspaper group to install a full Atex system. Following the move to Wapping in 1986, the editorial teams encountered the newly-installed computers for the first time, pictured below. For most, it was a whole new environment.<figure id="09ef"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*Ttno5evVUFxpAMIYEk68AQ.jpeg"><figcaption>View of The Times editorial floor with journalists working on Atex computers, 1986.</figcaption></figure><figure id="bafe"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*guOmPZCS4qN22yb34egviw.jpeg"><figcaption>Close-up of an Atex computer and keyboard.</figcaption></figure>Follow us on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/NewsUKArchives">twitter.com/NewsUKArchives</a>Follow us on Instagram: <a href="https://instagram.com/newsukarchives/">instagram.com/newsukarchives/</a>To enquire about images available for licensing contact: <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></article></body>

Changing Times

Changing Times: A page from the original website of The Times and The Sunday Times. Users could access online titles after completing a registration form.

In the dark ages of dial-up, The Times website went live on January 1, 1996, followed a week later by The Sunday Times on January 7. Whilst these screen grabs appear pretty retro today — no bevelled edges in sight — The Times’ original website was actually award-winning. Just six months after its launch, in July 1996, the internet edition of the newspaper won the award for the “hottest and fastest Website” in the UK in recognition of its seven-days-a-week daily updated news service.

(Left) The front page for May 2, 1997, reporting Labour’s landslide victory in the 1997 General Election. (Centre) The Sunday Times Rich List 1998. (Right) The Times produced a special Internet site for the 1998 World Cup. During the tournament this homepage regularly received over 200,000 hits a day.

Much like today, the websites reproduced virtually all of the text of the broadsheet newspapers and included regular news updates throughout the day. They also offered a range of additional resources, including back issues of all Internet editions of both titles.

In August 1997, The Times and The Sunday Times became the first national newspapers to receive an audit certificate from ABC//electronic, the Internet sites auditor.

The IBM 1130

The new IBM 1130 computer console , September 1969

On September 9, 1969 The Times became the first newspaper in the world to use a computer to make calculations relating to share dealings and, at the same time, to typeset prices pages automatically. Prior to the introduction of the IBM 1130 — the oh so compact machine pictured above — stock prices were dealt with by hand. Collected daily from the City, new prices were marked in by clerical staff on paste-ups of the day’s published prices and then sent to the Composing Room for setting, where 38 machines were required to complete the work. With the introduction of the new technology the production process was reduced to just 2 ½ hours, enabling the prices to make the first edition.

Staff in the Composing Room getting to grips with the IBM 1130, four days before the system went live, September 1969.

Below is the first share table produced using the new computer system, published in The Times on September 9, 1969. With the introduction of the IBM 1130 the newspaper was also able to provide a new service for its readers — it could now supply seven pieces of information per stock, up from four, for a total of over 1,500 stocks. An investor’s dream!

The new Times share page, September 9, 1969.

Atex arrives

For the journalists of The Times the advent of the electronic age arrived on January 24, 1986 — in the slightly bulky form of the Atex computer system. News International, today News UK, was the first UK newspaper group to install a full Atex system. Following the move to Wapping in 1986, the editorial teams encountered the newly-installed computers for the first time, pictured below. For most, it was a whole new environment.

View of The Times editorial floor with journalists working on Atex computers, 1986.

Close-up of an Atex computer and keyboard.

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