I used to earn a living editing a website, you know.
The link will take you to some archived remains of a long-dead UK online gay magazine called Gay365.com, which was launched at the height of the UK internet euphoria by (at the time) unstoppable web-publishing giant, the 365 Corporation.
What's even more exciting than finding these archived fragments, is the web archive machine itself.
The thing is, Gay365 is no longer actually online, but while it was online back in the year 2000, web.archive.org committed it to its archives, so now we can all take a trip back in time and see just how bad a product I created.
To be fair, it did have some moments of brilliance. The subversive gay soap opera acted out by Action Men dolls was one of them. But we were a very small team, and the main part of the website, a kind of Gaydar-type online meeting-place was poorly engineered and never really worked properly, which was a shame, since we'd spent such a fortune on marketing.
We also tried to succeed by providing light-hearted yet intelligent content for gay men, while resisting the clichés of having a photo of yet-another-bloke-with-his-top-off.
A completely foolhardy strategy, of course. Still, it was fun while it lasted. And I certainly know the M1 between London and Hemel Hempstead (where the offices were.)
Posted by Eurodan at February 25, 2004 10:57 PM