Numanme was a project started 1980, before even starting the Numanme web site. Back in the old days when we had to put pen to paper I used to keep a list on lined A4 paper just for my own reference I also would staple flyers, clippings almost anything to do with Numan. The whole point of this list was when I went to record fairs I could see what I had and what I didn’t, a very useful tool when in the hustle and bustle of a record faire you had to be quick especially if you found a bargain, so it was a quick glance at the list then in for the kill. One thing I learnt very quickly was never to be seen in a Numan T-shirt at record fairs, or you would pay the cost, sometimes prices would be doubled. In those days it was harder to find a Numan rarity we didn’t have the luxury of eBay.

The next best thing to a record fair was the good old Record Collector, a handy thing for any collector, I used to spend hours flicking through the pages hunting for any Numan records I didn’t have. I also used to sell Numan and kraftwerk imports in the Record Collector, I used to find this very enjoyable but due to the changes in my life I had to abandon collecting for a while, many a good memory anyone collecting will always remember the buzz tracking down the old vinyl.

So some years passed collecting the odd Numan records then one day my son asked if he could have a computer, I didn’t know anything about computers/ my wife (Vanessa) ordered one for the kids. I always remember it being delivered the kids where excited, Vanessa and I were scared shitless of it, my first experience of a techno-phobia. Also the computer cost an arm and a leg compared to computers today.

After a day or so the computer crashed it cost me £40.00 pounds to put right, over the next month or two it crashed several times so I decided to find out as much as I could about these computers so I started building my own, after a year or so I could pretty much solve any computer problem myself. Then I started playing with many art tools after many months I quickly became very interested in building a web site.

My first project was to be called Dead Heaven, I started to build the site using Microsoft Publisher, I found this very easy to use but at the same time very restrictive, but never less this was a good starting tool. The site soon become a little bit of a monster I uploaded the site to the internet in the spring of 1999 I kept the site private so I could test and add to it. The idea was simple, add as many pictures as possible and make it interesting to look at, it soon started to look like a good Numan discography site, and I actually was proud of it the graphics look as good as any other sites. I was very new to the net and very naïve I should have purchased the domain name Dead Heaven. But I didn’t I soon discovered someone else did much to my horror, so I had to look for a new name for the site and change a lot of the artwork on the site.

Old list on lined A4		Revised list