Jamie and
his wife are both keen photographers and are looking for the site to showcase
some really nice photos of the village and coastline. Jamie is doing this purely
as a hobby, and his work in digital marketing provides the knowledge to add social
and interactive elements for people to share photos and comments.
Milford
on Sea’s very first website (www.milfordonsea.com)
was set up by Sarah Bell over 12 years ago.
Tim Berners-Lee only came up the entire web concept in March 1989, whilst
working for CERN, (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research). At that time he wrote a proposal on how CERN physicists could share all the computer-stored
information at the laboratory by transferring information over the Internet by
using hypertext. In May 1990, the name
World Wide Web was settled upon, and the rest is as they say history, with over
100 million website estimated to be in existence today.
So, when Sarah built and launched her site in
October 1999, it was at a time when the world wide web was still extremely new and
many people still did not know what it was.
Sarah’s site must have been one of the first ever ‘community websites’,
and over the years the past news stories has built up to become a fascinating history of
life, events and people in Milford on Sea.
This
website (www.milfordonsea.org) was
launched on a whim in May 2009. What
started as a bit of a hobby, and for no particular purpose other than to give
the village tourism a bit of a boost, has grown in to a bit of a monster.
Over the years the ‘news’ and ‘calendar’ sites
have been added, with all of the sites totalling 660,560 visits since launch. The Village News Bulletin is received by 1624
people, and as you know it contains some local news and quite a bit of
nonsense. Today the sites continue as a
hobby, but a bit of a bigger one than was expected!
You
can check Jamie’s and Sarah’s websites out on the links below:
www.milfordonseanews.org
www.milfordonseacalendar.org
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