To help celebrate 10 years of online history, we asked CBC.ca veterans and prominent writers to reflect on the website's past and present, and look toward its future.
Growing Pains
![Language](/web/20061030041552im_/http://www.cbc.ca/10th/columns/images/promos/column_prehistory_52.jpg)
- CBC.ca prehistory
- by Paul Gorbould
![Language](/web/20061030041552im_/http://www.cbc.ca/10th/columns/images/promos/spelling_column_52.jpg)
- CBC learns to spell
- by Blair Shewchuk
![Promo "rip"](/web/20061030041552im_/http://www.cbc.ca/10th/columns/images/promos/seemed_column_52.jpg)
- Seemed like a good idea at the time
- by Paul Gorbould
![CBC.ca web server, 1997](/web/20061030041552im_/http://www.cbc.ca/10th/columns/images/promos/hackers_column_52.jpg)
- The day the hackers invaded
- by Paul Gorbould
![Page being edited](/web/20061030041552im_/http://www.cbc.ca/10th/columns/images/promos/you_be_editor_52.jpg)
- You be the editor
- Can you spot the mistakes in these sentences? Our readers can – and did.
Experiments & Evolution
![Olympics](/web/20061030041552im_/http://www.cbc.ca/10th/columns/images/promos/olympics_column_52.jpg)
- Olympic efforts at CBC
- by Andrew Lundy
![Train](/web/20061030041552im_/http://www.cbc.ca/10th/columns/images/promos/railway_column_52.jpg)
- I've been logging on the railroad
- by Geoff Sowrey
![Newsworld Online logo](/web/20061030041552im_/http://www.cbc.ca/10th/columns/images/promos/interactive_column_52.jpg)
- Online and interactive
- by Paul Gorbould
News – Past
![Newsworld Online logo](/web/20061030041552im_/http://www.cbc.ca/10th/columns/images/promos/newsworld_column_52.jpg)
- Breaking news at Newsworld Online
- by Robin Rowland
![Stephen Harper](/web/20061030041552im_/http://www.cbc.ca/10th/columns/images/promos/elections_column_52.jpg)
- Elections online
- by Tom Kavanagh
![Doctor wearing mask](/web/20061030041552im_/http://www.cbc.ca/10th/columns/images/promos/sars_column_52.jpg)
- Covering a local crisis: SARS and the web
- by Lisa Khoo
News – Future
![Cory Doctorow](/web/20061030041552im_/http://www.cbc.ca/10th/columns/images/promos/doctorow_column_52.jpg)
- Truth and the Net
- by Cory Doctorow
![Newsroom](/web/20061030041552im_/http://www.cbc.ca/10th/columns/images/promos/age_of_swarm_52.jpg)
- Media in the age of the swarm
- by Clive Thompson
![Newsworld Online logo](/web/20061030041552im_/http://www.cbc.ca/10th/columns/images/promos/burman_column_52.jpg)
- Reading websites and tea leaves
- by Tony Burman