this is bbc news, the headlines. as one of the largest hospitals in the world opens in london to treat 4000 coronavirus patients, people in the uk are being urged to stay at home this weekend to try to stop the spread of covid—19. britain's health secretary said the advice was "not a request" but an instruction.

president trump has announced new recommendations for americans to wear masks when they go outside to slow the spread of the virus. us health officials have advised people to cover their faces but to keep medical—grade masks free for health workers. although mr trump stressed the suggestion wasn't compulsory. the head of the imf has said the coronavirus pandemic had created an economic crisis like no other. kristalina georgieva said that never in the history of the imf had the world economy come to a standstill. more than 90 countries have asked the organisation for help. now on bbc news, it's time to click. this week, dial—up internet, apple releases the ipod, very tight suits and furry friends. it is click‘s 20th anniversary and these are our greatest hits.

welcome to click, i'm spencer kelly. 0n the sixth of april 2000, a plucky new tv programme hit the air, promising to talk about something that many people, many in the media thought was too scary, too nerdy — technology. no—one thought that programme would last more than a couple of years and yet 20 years later, click is still on air. just. because it's impossible to believe that we're celebrating our 20th birthday in a world that seems eerily similar to those dystopian

sci—fi films that we geeks grew up on. like many programmes, we're going to find it hard to stay on air during the lockdown. but, for old times‘ sake, because it's our birthday, we going to forget about it all and take one last look at click through the ages. get ready for 20 years in 20 minutes. click 0nline. it is the age—old story, bbc launches new .com programme, .com bubble immediately bursts. was it ourfault? probably. yet stephen and his team were ready to take apart any tech they could get their hands on. episode one featured two polar opposite housestyles, —— hairstyles explaining how to copy photos of those newfangled digital cameras and a review of the upcoming playstation 2, conducted on the boot of a car. the new millennium was often running with the latest pocket pcs, the very hottest fashion and a man trapped in a pda.

home computers were helping to make music, which could be listened to on whatever that is. and stored on sd cards with a massive 64 megabytes — yes! and that's not all. slot the card in, stick in headphones on and you're away, free to jog, do whatever you want. home internet was about to get a lot faster too as one of the backstreet boys showed you how to switch your computer from dial—up to superfast broadband. by 2001, south korea was already going nuts for online games and injapan, shy boys were honing their chat—up lines by texting computerised girls. richard was exploring online markets while trying to buy a house online. £140,000? not a chance these days. and for a short time,

this was the future. we'd all be living in three the world stressed in flashy close or penguin outfits. then, along came apple to really rocked the world. the ipod was born and the decade it was defined. it's 2002 and we're really hitting out right now. as are the robots. but in the days when 36 was still in its infancy, there was a cunning way some of you are getting online, by finding an unsecured wi—fi network using a metal snack tube and then war chalking it on the pavement for everyone else to find. cunning. richard went undercover in hong kong to infiltrate the world of software and dvd piracy. and in fact, the whole spy thing looked like such fun that everyone played dress—up and tried to do mission impossible on a budget of 10p. and as we try to explain what you could do with the world's most powerful supercomputer, we enlisted the help of a young, rising star who was about to go universal. the idea is to look at a model of the global climate, the earth.

at the moment, models away the atmosphere works and the oceans. they are based on dividing the earth into grids and then you can focus in on very small phenomena. like your beautiful hair, brian. 2003 rolls around and before anyone was talking around the cloud, this chap turns up wearing it. i'm not sure what happened to him, but the shirt lives on. burned into the back of people's retinas to this day. david reid opted to get measured for a more sober costume, and showed us what he wore on the weekend. and in your spare time, this was the amazing content that we were recommending online. you can even get interactive and play the panpipes using your mouse. thank you sam, thank you partners. the budget wouldn't stretch to a horse. kate strolled into town for the first time and rob was creating his own ringtones and chris and simon demonstrated the very latest,

portable photo scanner. in 2004, we bought ourselves a dan. here he is out looking for toilet roll and the only thing left in the tinned goods aisle was google soup. i tell you what we won't short of though, nokias. when one in three of us around the world owned a nokia who were surely going to be around forever. talking of things vanishing without a trace, here is richard injapan sporting pretty much the opposite of a high—vis jacket. and here is something else none of us should have had to say. the proposal was another piece of technological creativity. i designed a flowery montage and beamed it to my pda when she least expected it. ian hardy's wedding report not at all toe—curling. but at least we didn't have to see him in the bath — oh, there he is! and here is again, this time appearing as a me—con on the world's largest display

in las vegas in 2005. it's the year we saw hints of tv on mobile and tv in animals. in india, we saw rural villages start to get access to the internet, health information, and education. by the way, this is the best mobile phone there has ever been. 0k. but we also saw the dangers of sending out unwanted tech to poorer countries without thinking of the consequences. in the cities, india's poor scrape a living by breaking down pcs and monitors. what they don't realise is that the toxic chemicals inside, like cadmium and lead, can pose serious health risks. and as always, japan was a joyous glimpse of what happens when you embrace technology without fear. an attitude i think we could all do with every now and again. watch out, here comes

2006 with a new look, a new host, and some stunningly expensive special effects. we took a rare peek inside the new technology superpower that was, and is, china. before the kindle, we were already looking at the e—paper technology that would power it. and as phones struggled desperately to become smart, we tried out some of the new designs — including a touchscreen device that's not a million miles away from apple's forthcoming world changer. 2007, africa, and we were testing cameras in the wild. fortunately, we weren't eaten by anything enormous unless you count a giant pacman. i will see you in london. it's that way, i think. in namibia, we trekked miles in crazy solar—hats to try out satellite broadband in the desert. it's either going to blow up or a have a lock. this year's hot topic was piracy websites and in particular, the protests outside the swedish

parliament that followed the pirate bay being shut down. chris used the age—old coffee jar analogy to see which disc format was going to win. hd—dvd, or blu—ray? the answer — streaming. we saw misbehaving furniture in san francisco and then dan came across a small country that had something electrifying in its garage. it took tesla another five years to start delivering its saloon car but this one really did set the balls in motion. talking of balls, here is the beginning of live onset motion capture demonstrated by some idiot in a very tight suit. and of course there was that new phone from that company. and that was when everything changed. in 2008, the rest of the mobile phone companies tried to play catch up. touchscreens were everywhere, the mobile web was getting there but surely the iphone couldn't slay all of the established phone—makers? nokia, which sells more phones

in one week than apple does in a year, would have its own touchscreen rival by december. but as we started to spend more time online, our digitalfootprints were leaving behind significant clues about us. and we decided to show how your personal data could be scraped and used by anyone who knew how to write a facebook app. we wrote an evil application which secretly collected the personal details of you and your friends and sent them to us. fortunately, facebook closed that hole and nobody has ever used our personal data against us since. hey there, and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that the uk's main internet providers agreed to remove data caps on fixed line broadband during the coronavirus pandemic. a zoom customer is suing the video—call company, claiming that its sharing of data

to facebook is a violation of user privacy. we got in touch with zoom who said the facebook software development kit has since been removed from the app. and the owner of video—chat app houseparty has offered $1 million to anyone who can show evidence it was the victim of a commercial smear campaign. this follows claims that downloading the app led to other services such as netflix and spotify, being hacked. it was also the week that robot cars started patrolling the streets of tunisia. in an effort to enforce the country's lockdown, remote—controlled vehicles now approach people on the street asking why they were outside. engineers at stanford have developed an ankle exoskeleton that can be strapped to a user's leg to make running easier. the motors pull a cable which runs up the back of the leg, extending the ankle as the toes push off the ground. and finally, is video calling getting a little bit boring now? well, you could always, i don't know, chat to a goat. the sweet farm sanctuary

in california has made their animals available online. called ‘goat meeting' — the scheme also features appearances from other barnyard animals. well, not such a ba—ad idea. right, let's get back to it. 2009 was patchy and japan was as brilliantly japanese ever. augmented reality was a reality. home internet was getting so fast we couldn't think what we would need it for but then smart tvs arrived and it turned out the answer was, everything. 3d television had resurfaced like some blurry white elephant with stupid glasses. we told you it would never catch on. i told that to this guy, too, but daniel ek didn't listen and spotify became a thing anyway.

i have no idea what's going on right now. it's a new decade and 2010 starts with a bang. well, a crack, actually, as dan is told this phone is completely unbreakable, so he broke it. i've actually broken the phone! do not challenge us. play music with lightning? check. go skiing in the dubai desert? of course. make high—tech fashion look cool? um... there is mark. now bungie is out of the halo business, what happens to the stars of its games? the spacefaring super soldiers, the spartans? window cleaning and lift attendance, apparently. but the year was once again dominated by apple, this time going big on tablets.

but just the next year, the man who had led the company from next to nothing to global domination left us. stevejobs, the biggest tech superstar of his time. also in 2011, lara joined the team and immediately went for a lie down. the trouble is i often get up at 3:30am to talk about the weather. good morning. you remember the weather, don't you? it's the thing that's outside? and in the year of wiggly robots, holographic tv and cheap costume hire, we went looking for the next big thing. here it is. for truly portable smartphone viewing, check out this tv hat. sorry, here it is. imagine wearable, bendable and colour—changeable tech? the breakthrough could be a material called graphene. down there, taking rare time on his now pathological need