2000
Eddsport was launched by Eddie Hall in January
2000 as one half of a family website - the
other half belonging to his father, Richard,
who later launched his own Grindham
Website under
the guidance of Eddie. The Eddsport website
started out as a catalogue of motor
racing champions from
a wide range of categories.
2001
Eddsport took a step forward in 2001; becoming
an independent website. Using the resources
available at top web design company, Frontmedia,
Eddsport Technologies was formed and the
Eddsport Motorsport Library was re-designed
and re-catalogued.
2002
With founder Eddie Hall making his long awaited
return to racing in 2002, development on
the Motorsport Library took a back seat as
the Official
Eddie Hall website was launched by Eddsport
Technologies. This website proved to be a
huge success due to
the popularity of the young racing driver.
2003
At the start of the year, development work
started to rebuild the Motorsport Library
and redesign the site. However, with the
downsizing
of
Frontmedia, Eddsport Technologies
branched
out on its own
and launched Eddsport-Web4Sport,
a company offering template driven sites
to
the sports
industry.
2004
The Web4Sport idea was sold to the award-winning
web software development company Datapartners,
who subsequently created the Web4Sport brand.
Eddsport Technologies took charge of all
technical development for the company. The
Eddsport Motorsport Library was re-launched
with its
new design
but an
incomplete
new
database
- which
is
to this day awaiting input!
2005
Eddsport Technologies poured all of its resources
into the Web4Sport brand, backing the successful
championship campaigns of Eddie Hall with
IMSD
Racing, and the team's junior driver, Seth
Scott-Deuchar and a number of football
teams. As well as this, Eddsport Technologies
also
began
expnasion
of its
Library into other niche markets after the
unprecedented success of the final installment
of The Kart
Wars Trilogy.
2006
Riding on the back
of the success of the Kart Wars Trilogy,
the Star
Wars Library was
formed, along with an affiliation with two
internet dominators, Amazon and Google.
Eddsport Technologies also launched the ColdFusion
Library under a new
software development division, EddSoft, which
caters for all in-house software development.
2007
Continuing its growth into niche markets, Eddsport
took over the waning interest of the Web4Sport product and, used as a beta platform for
Datapartners Projects, started rebuilding
it as a "MySpace for Sport". Another
beta project was the Blahwagon
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