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21stCentury.co.uk is a great collection of futuristic gadgets, toys, free online games and amazing cars with more fun than you can shake a book of Nostradamus’ prophecies at.
– Practical Internet magazine.
Created by Clifford White and launched in 1999 to herald the dawn of the new millennium,21stcentury.co.uk was internationally recognised in the early 00’s as a leading UK innovation and technology news website, and was featured widely in popular magazines throughout the first decade of the 21st century.
21st Century is an excellent site for keeping informed about new developments and includes everything from cars and robots through to fashion.
– .net magazine.
Tomorrows World Live
In addition to magazine and newspaper coverage,21stcentury.co.uk partnered with the Tomorrows World Live Exhibition, running a series of competitions to promote the show, and securing a stand at the event to promote the 21stcentury.co.uk website.
21stcentury.co.uk was first born as an idea back in 1995, when Clifford White – music composer and producer of the 80’s hit album Ascension – purchased the domain name with a view to creating a kind of ‘Tomorrows World on the web’. Tomorrows World had been a popular TV programme on the BBC during the 80’s – a sort of precursor to ‘The Gadget Show’ – and Clifford had enjoyed seeing where the latest technology was headed, with it’s prospects for a brighter future. Always having been something of a sci-fi geek, Clifford’s love of Star Trek and the works of Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Sheckley and Douglas Adams, Clifford quickly realised the potential of the internet as an information resource, and he envisioned the 21stcentury.co.uk website as a ‘one-stop-shop’ for all things futuristic and technological, fusing articles about the latest gadgets and technological marvels, with ruminations about Science, Physics, the environment and other topics of global interest.
Well written, easy to read science related stories that make the most of the capabilities of publishing on the internet.
– Computer Active Web Guide.
UPDATE: After almost two decades, Clifford felt he had achieved many of the goals and aspirations he had originally envisioned for the 21stcentury.co.uk website and, in light of the growing popularity for news sites such as WIRED and Techcrunch to satisfy the public’s appetite for gadget and technology reviews. Clifford decided to close down 21stcentury.co.uk as a Science and Technology portal in 2016.
However the 21stcentury.co.uk brand remained popular, and in 2018 Clifford decided to relaunch the website as an electronic music record label.
