BASS Digital Archeology
Serving skiers online since 1999
25+ years of digital innovation.
With over 3000 pages archived in the Internet Archive since 1999, BASS has one of the longest continuous digital presences in the ski instruction industry.
Explore our history on the Wayback Machine digital archive
Website evolution: 1999-2025 | View our archive
You can see more BASS History here.
On this page you’ll see screenshots of the BASS website from 1999 to 2025 - thank you Wayback Machine digital archive!
BASS website 2025
It’s easy to overlook the fact that modern technology is awesome.
It takes a lot of work to make it look this easy!
Link to the live BASS Homepage
https://www.britishskischool.com/
BASS website 2017
A good modern website of the time.
Web archive link
https://web.archive.org/web/20160425122711/http://www.britishskischool.com/
BASS website 2016
This was a good modern website of the time, so the design served us well.
Web archive link
https://web.archive.org/web/20150916050840/http://www.britishskischool.com/
BASS website 2014
Technology moves on. This design really let us begin to do more interesting things.
Web archive link
https://web.archive.org/web/20140209171813/http://www.britishskischool.com/
BASS website 2011
The website is still looking fairly modern today (2025). There’s a lot going on under the hood.
This is the Datatherapy version of the BASS website in full flow. Yousaf at Datatherapy was very important to the development of the technology that allowed us to run successful BASS ski schools.
BASS website December 2006
One new Landing page, 2 separate messages, and 3 famous people.
From top left to bottom right:
Sean Langmuir - Olympian - skier, working with BASS in Les Gets at that time;
Colin Jackson - Olympian - 110m hurdler,
Steve Ricketts - Director of BASS Val d’Isere and famous author.
The BBC invited BASS to train Colin and his sister on the BBC Holiday programme - it was a fun week!
BASS website 2006
This was a sophisticated website for the time, so it lasted, with various updates, for quite a while.
BASS website 2004
This design served us well.
BASS website September 2003
As technology improved, we took the opportunity to make the website more sophisticated than the previous version, allowing us to build more functionality.
BASS website August 2003
We’re getting busy and need a more complex design than previously. Yes those images were taken with one of the first digital cameras.
I remember being amazed that I could take photographs and load them onto the BASS website.
BASS website 2002
By 2002, we’d moved to this snappy design.
Thanks to Wayback machine for their incredible archive.
BASS website 1999 digital archeology
25+ years of digital innovation
Even the awesome Wayback Machine digital archive has only captured some of this BASS Homepage from 1999. The main body of this archive screenshot is just empty white, while the original background on the website was dark blue.
Using grey to highlight the page reveals the white text.
Fancy graphic links at the bottom of the page - cutting edge back then.
Web archive link
https://web.archive.org/web/20000522044556fw_/http://www.britishskischool.com/endorsef.htm
BASS Digital Archeology
Serving skiers online since 1999
BASS Digital Archeology represents the British Alpine Ski School’s commitment to maintaining a rich digital legacy in the ski instruction world. Serving skiers online since 1999, it illustrates decades of BASS websites, stretching back 10 1999, from the Wayback Machine archive. Expert knowledge, instructional techniques, and client experiences that have shaped the school’s reputation. This initiative not only preserves historical content but also leverages it to enhance current and future learning, ensuring that BASS remains a trusted resource for English-speaking ski enthusiasts in Morzine, Val d'Isère, and Châtel and other BASS resorts.