The service was launched in 1999 as BBC Text.

BBC Text originally launched on digital terrestrial services in 1999, and was later introduced on satellite and cable platforms.

A digital text service had been available since the launch of digital terrestrial television in November 1998, but the BBC Text service was not publicly launched until November 1999, due to a lack of availability of compatible set-top boxes.

During the 1999 Wimbledon Championships, the BBC presented a service which allowed viewers to select a video stream of different matches, and access additional information such as player profiles, scores and interactive quizzes.

* BBC News Northern Ireland 1917-20 The Road to Partition posted March 18, 1999

In 1999 the series came first place in a BBC poll selecting the nation's favourite children's show.

It aired on BBC Radio 1 in the early hours of the morning from 1997 to 1999.

This discovery was made public in a BBC TV programme in 1999, reviving debate about Soviet links to CND.

Examples include Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ( 1998 ) ( wherein the slang is translated via subtitles in one scene ); The Limey ( 1999 ); Sexy Beast ( 2000 ); Snatch ( 2000 ); Ocean's Eleven ( 2001 ); and Austin Powers in Goldmember ( 2002 ); It's All Gone Pete Tong ( 2004 ), after BBC radio disc jockey Pete Tong whose name is used in this context as rhyming slang for " wrong "; Green Street Hooligans ( 2005 ).

Until 1999, GBC retransmitted BBC Prime, but was relaunched as a community-based service focusing on local news and other items of local interest.

* BBC ( 1999 ).

Marx is widely considered one of the most influential thinkers in history, who has had a significant influence on both world politics and intellectual thought, and in a 1999 BBC poll was voted the top " thinker of the millennium ".

During 1998 and 1999, forty BBC local radio stations recorded personal oral histories from a broad cross-section of the population for the series The Century Speaks.

After retiring from playing in 1964, Benaud turned to full-time cricket journalism and commentary, dividing his time between Britain ( where he worked for the BBC for many years before joining Channel 4 in 1999 ), and Australia ( for the Nine Network ).

In a BBC poll in August 1999, Milligan was voted the " funniest person of the last 1000 years ".

* 31 December 1999: the BBC Balloon was Flying during 2000 Today and used throughout 2000

The Survey of English Dialects took a recording from a long-time resident of Hackney, and the BBC made another recording in 1999 which showed how the accent had changed.

* BBC ( April 23, 1999 ).

In Rwanda, the BBC World Service's Rwanda-Rundi service has been broadcasting the Archers-inspired soap opera Urunana (" Hand in Hand ") since 1999.

The distinctive appearance of Triceratops has led to them being frequently depicted in films, computer games and documentaries, including the Don Bluth film The Land Before Time, which featured a young Triceratops as a main character, the 1993 film Jurassic Park and the 1999 BBC television documentary Walking with Dinosaurs.

In 1999, DJ Simon Mayo commented on BBC Radio 1: " Marillion ... where are they now?

* 1999: The Complete BBC Sessions

* 1999, shown on BBC Top Gear – 25 / 26 December 1999

The BBC produced two audio dramas in 1998 and 1999 that feature some original cast members, and were broadcast on Radio 4.

In 1999, a limited run of cartridges were produced by Atari historian Curt Vendel using ROM code from Gary Rubio ( the former Atari liaison to GCC on the Atari 7800 project ).

* Cleopatra ( 1999 film ), an American film produced by Hallmark Entertainment

But follow-up studies have ( depending on who was summarizing the results ) failed to replicate the phenomenon or produced mixed results ( Bem & others, 2001 ; Milton & Wiseman, 2002 ; Storm, 2000, 2003 ). One skeptic, magician James Randi, has a longstanding offer — now U. S. $ 1 million —“ to anyone who proves a genuine psychic power under proper observing conditions ” ( Randi, 1999 ).

In 1999 it was licensed to Living Room Games, which produced the Second Edition.

The country produced of oil per day in 2001, which was a decrease of 9 % from 1999 production levels.

The Buick-sourced V6 engine, produced locally, powered the Commodore range, as did the 5. 0-litre Holden V8 engine, replaced in 1999 by the 5. 7-litre LS unit.

A general election in June 1999 produced the first freely elected national, provincial, and regional parliaments in over forty years.

Ramone produced the Ronnie Spector album She Talks to Rainbows in 1999.

Grammer supplied the voices for " Stinky Pete the Prospector " in 1999 Disney / Pixar film Toy Story 2, Vladimir in the Fox animated movie Anastasia, Rothbart in Barbie of Swan Lake, Zozi the Bear in the subsequently produced prequel Bartok the Magnificent, and the title character in the short-lived animated series Gary the Rat.

It also has produced hardcore sex films: Constance ( 1998 ), Pink Prison ( 1999 ), HotMen CoolBoyz ( 2000 ) and All About Anna ( 2005 ).

He has produced the Academy Awards ceremony twice, first in 1999 with the 72nd annual Academy Awards and second in 2004 with the 77th annual ceremony.

Hess died in 1999 while the team, plagued by injuries, produced an eight win record, falling short of a playoff berth.

Since 1999 the shipyard has produced only warships for the Navy.

In 1999, the Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki produced Juha, which captures the style of a silent film, using intertitles in place of spoken dialogue.

The 1998 & 1999 Atlantic hurricane season produced 3 hurricanes which battered St. Kitts & Nevis.

Cash crops ( as of 1999 ) grown under irrigation in these areas include cotton and cottonseed, which is of primary importance to the economy with 172, 000 tons and 131, 000 tons produced annually respectively ,< ref name =" Nations ">

Coffee and cocoa are traditionally the major cash crops for export, but cotton cultivation increased rapidly in the 1990s, with 173, 000 metric tons produced in 1999.

Vya, established in 1999, is an American vermouth produced in Madera County, California.

It was produced by the Moon Troupe in 1998 and again in 1999 by the Star Troupe.

XSLT was part of the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C )' s Extensible Stylesheet Language ( XSL ) development effort of 1998 – 1999, a project that also produced XSL-FO and XPath.

The series ended on September 24, 1999, although occasional specials were produced until 2002.

Worldwide, The United Nations Environmental Programme ( UNEP ) estimated that more than 400 million tons of hazardous wastes are produced universally each year, mostly by industrialized countries ( schmit, 1999 ).

* A. T. F., a 1999 television film produced for the American Broadcasting Company

* Mac ( Beanie Baby ), a Beanie Baby cardinal produced by Ty, Inc. in 1999

From 1999 to 2011, Baen's e-books were produced by Webscriptions under contract for Baen Books in various ( at least five ) common digital formats.