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I built and ran this website between 2000 and 2001, combining passion for popular music and programming. It was listed by MTV's now defunct MusicNewswire as one of the then nascent web's top twenty sources, alongside Billboard and VH1. The most exciting part of it — for a 13/14-year-old excited by new music — was receiving scores of pre-release CDs from record companies. The entire project was written entirely from scratch (frameworks and libraries were not the norm back then!) in PHP linking to a MySQL database, with HTML as well as a little CSS and JavaScript for the frontend; the code is available here.
Girish Gupta
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Badly Drawn Boy's famous hat has been stolen. Damon Gough was drinking in the
Night & Day CafĂ on Oldham Street in Manchester city centre when a man simply pulled the
hat off his head.