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History
Sim Media was launched on the June 8, 2003. This article takes a look back through Sim Media's past. Sim Media's founder, Jon, opened his first fan site for The Sims in 1999, when he was only 11 years of age. This first site was a basic website, made up of around five pages: one for a couple of wall/floor downloads, one for links, one for news, and a couple with information about the actual game.

This first site soon became Jon's second website, where some of the very first series' were shown. Sims World was the first site of Jon's to offer more entertaining content, such as sims created comic strips, funny pictures from the game, and was also where some of the major shows were first lauched. TMS, as it became known by regulars, was a monthly ficitional newspaper with stories from Simsville. Each month there'd be several articles, such as the murder of Bella Goth and Bob Newbie's failed attempt to land on the Sim Moon, along with columns with interviews, fansites of the month and more. The Monthly Sim did make it to Sim Media, but as the site grew it was sadly axed from the site and replaced with more original content instead.

After Sims World had been around for two years, Jon gave the site up when he became more busy with other commitments, however when he recieved an email asking if he'd like to help out once more he couldn't resist, and soon the site recieved some of his past work including Sim Brother and The Monthly Sim.