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What's New - Updates - Visitors - Webmasters - Top Ten

What’s New?

• Now in its third record-breaking year
• 6 pages were launched on 1 January 1996 - One person signed the visitors log in January, two in February...
• On 1 April 1996 the site evolved into Greenwich2000
• On 1 March 1997 the UK edition was launched
• There are well over 1,000 pages dedicated to Greenwich & The Millennium. Originally the idea was to build a thousand pages for the millennium. We have more than enough material already to fill those pages!! We are currently anticipating a site of 3,500 pages available for the Millennium. That is we intend to build a complete encyclopaedic reference on all aspects of Greenwich. To this end Grolier On-line are already using the site as a reference source. This sounds like a daunting task but there is so much historical material available that it will be feasible. Obviously we shall need some help on this mammoth project; more details will be available shortly.
• We are also starting to get media enquiries from around the Globe. We have already featured on Cable TV in Texas, IBM Net across the Globe and The Sunday Times in the UK. We have been invited to a coast-to-coast network show in the USA. A large number of journalists have also been making enquiries. The site will be featured in a number of newspapers around the globe.
• Browsers: We have designed the site to be used by any browser anywhere. An analysis of our logs reveals that 73% of our visitors use Netscape 4 or above. Some of the features on the site do not function correctly in Microsoft Internet Explorer. We are investigating this but the site looks great in Netscape.
• We have designed the site with fast downloads in mind. We have therefore used high speed, highly optimised servers hooked up by triple redundant  links (via 3 separate suppliers!) into the Internet. Yes you did read this correctly - I.E. a link almost 1,000 times faster than the average 64k server connection. But folks around the World are struggling on 28.8k modems on overloaded circuits. For that reason we have kept the site to text intensive. We are planning major 'multi-media' upgrades to be released as when there is band-width to see them to the average viewer.

Recently we’ve added or updated:

Community - This section is being reorganised to include the following features:

• Outer Greenwich - Featuring the communities around the Greenwich hub

• Parliament - Details of local MPs and MEPs including full details of Nick Raynsford MP for Greenwich

Millennium News - Keeps you up-to-date with News Events

Greenwich Millennium Events - Several new features including:

• Greenwich Reach - Bringing 50,000 tonne cruise liners to Greenwich

• Jubilee Line Extension - Bringing the Tube to Greenwich in 1999

Millennium Events around the Globe and UK

• New features being added regularly

A new weather service has also been added.

Visitors

We are linked to many major sites throughout the World - welcome to our new friends. Many thanks for the daily piles of emails from around the globe with your generous comments - thank you all. We do read every one but cannot reply to everyone individually as it is taking up to 2 hours a day to reply to everyone. Please ensure you give us your correct email address - about 10% of them are still invalid!!! But your comments are appreciated.

Webmasters

We are always happy for you to link to our site but please use the following addresses:

Main site:

http://www.greenwich2000.com

Millennium Feature:

http://www.greenwich2000.com/millennium/

Year2000 Feature:

http://www.greenwich2000.com/millennium/year2000/

Time Feature:

http://www.greenwich2000.com/time/

Please advise us that you are setting up a link so that we can advise you of any changes that occur.

Most frequent Visitors

(Last month's position in brackets)

1. USA (1)
2. Canada (3)
3. UK (2)
4. Australia (4)
5. Sweden (6)
6. Japan (8)
7. Netherlands (7)
8. Germany (5)
9. Brazil (New Entry)
10. Italy (10)