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Website credits

Media UK has a lot of people to thank for our success since 1993. Here are just some of those who have worked on the site since then.

Director and Founder

James Cridland

Directory editors

Andrew Chatterton
Martin Deutsch
Paul Easton
Andrew Garner
Robbie Harrison
James Hatts
Jon Whittaker
Martin Phillp
Stuart Clarkson
Terry Wong Min
Vincent Lo
Ashley Elford

Software used

Server: Red Hat Linux
Hosted on: Apache
Written in: PHP
Database server: mySQL
Directory system: homegrown - MUK v4
Discussion system: based on phpBB
Knowledge system: based on Wikipedia
Client editors: WinSCP (PC), SSHFS/gEdit (Ubuntu Linux)

Hosting, DNS and email management

Rackspace
Amazon S3
Google

Original data originators

RDS data: Mark Hattam
DAB data: Wohnort
Live links: Vincent Lo

Site design

John Martin
Logos from famfamfam.com
Original logo by Daniel Butler; redrawn by Anthony Abbott (error messages, flat versions) and John Martin (masthead)

Other people to thank

Early believers: Carol Dukes, Roger Green and the Emap Internet team
Later believers: Simon Ryley, Bernie Flint, Kirit Saelensminde, Dave Cridland, and all at Felspar
And not forgetting: Olly Benson, Beth Hart, Chrissy Burns and our old forum guides


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