The story starts in early 2003, when an unsuspecting Mike Lewis realised a dream of…well, reliving the website dream. Again. After the failed TG Software, he was prepared to make this the best site he ever created. With the help of his graphical whizz kid Alan Warner-Grieve and the quotation master himself: Jon Hall, they set about making the one and only thing that would keep their interest for the next few months.
Not so long after, Pirate Software was born, in all of its dynamic glory. Confusing the general public with their new title, the site offered articles about anything, videos about nothing at all and photos that made no sense.