TV Yahoo! Picks interviews Dr. Siobahn Morgan, who created what may have been the first Doctor Who fan page, Nitro9, way back in 1993. It was certainly the first one I visited. Sadly, the interviewer doesn't seem to be much of a fan so the conversation tends to concentrate more on the technical aspects:
"What was the Web like back then?"
"The Web was pretty hard to use for anyone that wasn't comfortable using FTP or Gopher before the advent of browsers. I was pretty okay doing stuff like FTP and gopher, and using Unix commands, mainly due to the climate of my university. There was of course a great deal of patience in the old days."
You certainly did. What I love about Nitro9 is that Siobahn has never felt the need to change anything. It's all functional, you can still read everything and that's all ok.
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