It was all remarkably circular - Mike left El Reg supposedly for going corporate via the investors he'd sought, though the real decline of Reg came with later c

It was all remarkably circular - Mike left El Reg supposedly for going corporate via the investors he'd sought, though the real decline of Reg came with later changes, and went off to found the Inq. I think at the start it was just him and some freelance part timers. Then... A few years later he sells Inq to about the most corporate I can think of - VNU, the huge Dutch publisher with Computing and a mass of other serious titles. Err, wut? Obviously it would never be the same again... El Reg soon regained the title of most irreverent, and Inq a bit of a joke - for the wrong reasons. Of course neither were a patch on their early days.