A personal digital archive 25 captures
The changing face of public health online.
One homepage, seen across a quarter century. From the hand-built web to an era when the front page had to speak to the whole country at once.
Enter the archive
Curated by Peter Benoit.
The archive viewer
Twenty-five years,
one window.
Choose a year, then scroll inside the browser frame. The captures keep their original proportions because the length of a page is part of its story.
Four chapters
The web grows up in public.
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01
1997–2003
The handmade web
Links are the interface. The institution is present, but the medium is still introducing itself.
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02
2004–2009
The public portal
Navigation hardens into columns, utilities, channels, and a homepage designed as a map.
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03
2010–2018
The campaign stage
Photography arrives at scale. Health stories become visual, timely, and increasingly human.
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04
2019–2022
The essential service
The page stretches, simplifies, and learns to carry urgent information alongside everyday guidance.
Then / now
Same mission.
Different medium.
Drag across the image to move between the first and final captures in this collection.
The contact sheet
Every captured year.
Click any specimen to inspect the complete page above.
“Websites disappear. Memory shouldn’t have to.”
A small archive of public service, interface fashion, and the many ways one institution presented itself to the world.
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