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          <a href="/">Bel EPA - 10 years advanced research and development on the WWW</a>
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      <h4>Bel EPA 10th birthday</h4>
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Welcome to one of the quietly busy leading edges of the World-Wide Web. Our Bel EPA website has been home to advanced WWW development for the past 10 years.
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Bel EPA first appeared in 1995 as one of the core units in the <a href="/development/aibp95.xml">Avon Internet Business Park</a>, an experimental e-commerce project initiated by Graham Higgins whilst working at Hewlett Packard Labs, Bristol.
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For context: in that same year, the first Internet cafe opened in London, Baring's Bank  had a few problems with Nick Leeson and Microsoft brought out Windows 95, yes it was *that* long ago.
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To mark the occasion we have created a showcase of the more interesting and entertaining website content  from our first decade of work. There's a potted history covering the  <a href="/development/">advanced WWW development</a> mentioned above, a review of some of the <a href="/websites/">websites</a>  we have designed/built with brief coverage of the different e-publishing techniques used and lastly, a gallery of both published and  unpublished <a href="/newmedia/">multimedia work</a>.</p>
      <p>We are consulting information engineers and specialise in the design and engineering of website information systems which are easy to use and maintain. Our  clients range from small hands-on businesses to standards-setting blue chip companies.
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      <p>(If you've arrived here expecting to see photographs and paintings, they're on <a href="http://www.higginsandmacfarlane.com">www.higginsandmacfarlane.com</a>. This is a showcase of our internet work.)
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