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In the early nineties I was constantly searching for snooker information on the Internet, but there was hardly any available. I was considering starting my own snooker site for a long time, but I didnt wake up before I found Matt Braithwaites (now defunct) World Snooker Archive in November 1994. That got me going! Matt went on to manage the RileyNet site, but has now moved on to other projects. In the beginning there wasnt much on the site, mostly links to the very few snooker pages out there. From December 1994 I started covering the major snooker events. I could do this because of the results I received from Jonas Ödman . Early on there was a set of the BCA snooker rules on the site, but I later had to remove them because I received new information on the copyright restrictions. I have never published the WPBSA rules as that is not allowed. Jari Kokko and I have been planning to contact the WPBSA for years, but we have never gotten around to do it. The Fountain, by Richard Fountain was started in August 1995. Richard is an ex snooker coach and used to be the manager of Mark King. January, 1996 saw the birth of the High Break List for Netters, a chance for surfing snooker players to register their top tournament breaks and be able to compare with others. In March the same year I ran the first edition of the Crucible Contest. Its a competition where the goal is to predict how the World Championship will turn out. By this time I had gathered quite a few snooker links and Aug 7 I launched Snoohoo!, a compilation of the links in different categories. 30 September I made Snoohoo! fully automatic with the aid of CGI-scripts. From now on I only had to register a link once, and all related pages would be updated. At present (7 December, 1998) there are more than 1,000 links registered. August also saw the birth of the Marketplace, a place for people to buy and sell snooker-related material, e.g. cues, tables and videos. 7 December 1998 there were 219 ads registered. I had always received a lot of questions concerning the snooker rules.

 

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