Thanks to the archives at and the you can now see how this site started:
Links on the archived pages may not be working or are out of date
- First newsgroup message: 29 Nov 1989
- Follow-up to the first message: 31 Jan 1990
- Announcing the first website: 05 May 1996
- A new URL: 16 Oct 1998
- Archived versions of the site at AOL
- Archived versions of the current address
- Until
Jan 2002 this site consisted of static pages.
Any changes I wanted to make had to be done on my home PC and then be transferred to the webserver.
Now I can make changes online and they are immediately visible on the website (it also means that occasionally you will get an error message because I am testing something).