At the height of it's fame, top-notch dotcom comedy website idiotica.co.uk had 60,000 readers, reading the writings written by the writers for the readers to read. Editor-in-chief Dorian Flenk's obsession with London's Beak Street led to the creation of thisisbeakstreet.com, satirising the Evening Standard's thisislondon.com. The Evening Standard threatened to take us to court so we dropped everything and put it in a skip. That was the end of all things idiotica, for then. The only thing to survive from the original idiotica website is this faded screenshot of the homepage, circa 2010.
Read the full story behind the rise and demise of Dorian Flenk and his Idiotica empire.
