Dotmusic was a music webzine[1] that existed as a standalone website from 1 June 1995[2] to December 2003.
The site was edited by Andy Strickland and among its most prominent writers were Nimalan Nadesalingam (Nimalan Nades) who contributed artist biographies and James Masterton who contributed a weekly UK chart commentary.
After an internship in summer 2000, Alex Donne Johnson used his experience at Dotmusic to go on and found the urban music website RWDmag,[3] which later become one of the key players in the development of grime, UK garage and dubstep online.
A number of DotCons - conventions for Dotmusic users - were held in cities around the UK from 1999 onwards.
The regular forum posters created a number of replacement boards in an effort to retain the community.