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After a particularly boring day at home last year I decided I wanted to do something adventurous, something I had never done before, something that I could tell my friends I had done. After some thought, I decided Bungee Jumping was just the ticket. I turned on my laptop, onto a popular search engine and started to look for bungee jumping locations.
We are in the age of information, information is at our finger tips. That’s what everyone tells me, but why is it all wrong, hard to find or just third party businesses making you the customer pay extra? Search for any adventure sports activity on any directory like for example a popular phone book company, and you will find local locations, but not all of them, then you look at somewhere else to complete a little more of the picture, after 30 minutes you have found a number of different locations, you now have to phone around those different places to find which ones are still actually running. Or you could try one of the third party gift idea’s or experiences, available in locations around the UK, you book them and find you cant use it at your nearest venue, you have to travel past all your local ones, across a couple of different counties to get there.
After finding one particular ‘bungee jumping fan site’ where every single bungee jumping company no longer existed I decided I had to do something about it. I sat down at my computer and searched across the World Wide Web and made a note of all the available locations I could find, I then compiled a database and tried to learn web design. By now I had a database with over 3,500 entries in it. Many of which weren’t available on the first 4 or 5 pages of google unless you searched for the company directly (eg by name). My design skills failed to make the mark so I found someone who could make the site a success.
He designed the site for me and together we made www.spontaneous.me.uk the site it is so far, but it needs help from any and every enthusiast out there that has the time to spare. The Idea is to make a kind of trip advisor for the adventure sports world with comments and advice from different experts in their fields. Ask not what the web will provide for you but what you can provide for the web, only then will it provide you with the answers you require.
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