History

November 1993

Introduced experimental Web Caching service

Summer 1995

Recognised as the UK National Service
About 320,000 requests per day
To about 9,600 distinct sites
From about 2,700 client machines

11th March 1996

New trans-Atlantic link
A total of 1,650,000 requests per day
To about 20,000 distinct sites
From about 8,000 client machines