Hi Paul,
I'm the editor here at Virgin Net. Congratulations on your excellent Freespace site. In case they haven't mailed you themselves, we spotted a glowing review of your site at the following URL: http://www.webmagazine.com/tipworld/newborntips.html

Anyway, best of British to you,

THE WEB MAGAZINE

17th February 1998

David Bowie Wonderworld

Artists like David Bowie, who have been dissected by the media time and time again, are often less understood than before they went under the zeitgeist microscope. The best way to discover an artist is through his or her own (unedited) words. And that's exactly what this new fan-created site offers. Read through Bowie's self-penned tour diary from 1974 to '75 (originally published in Mirabelle) and scores of interviews and excerpts. You'll also find links, photos, tour schedules, screen savers, and more on this appropriately arty site. - E.H.

CONTENT 4 DESIGN 3 LINKS 4 OVERALL 4

Another totally gone Bowie fan has flown off the deep end with a hyper-obsessive neon shrine to da boy wonder. This site claims an award from The Web 'zine. It's got views of Bowie art, a nifty trivia page, a trading post for collectors, a sizeable press archive and the part I liked best, a great selection of recent news briefs. The huge photo picture gallery was slow as molasses being overpacked with scores of thumbnails you click for biggies. Can't vouch for anybody's familiar-photo sources but the web master even did some nifty mugging with our subject in at least four photos. This site is a piece of work recommended for an occasional repeat visit. Very artistic layout.

Congratulations!!

Your site is site of the week under category: British Pop.

Thanks for contributing to a better sense of community on the web. We value those of you taking the web to the next level. Your site has been selected as a featured site this week on the WebTrips Network(tm) located at http://www.webtrips.com.

The WebTrips Network(tm) is a free total entertainment experience which encompasses full animation, entertainment, and music.

Congratulations on your site! Your site has been reviewed and awarded the .Cool Reality Award. This award is only given to sites that have elegant graphics, content, and a cool sense of being about it.

I really enjoyed your site. Keep up the good work!

Hello, an excellent site and a worthy tribute! So, here's my Fairyaward!

I hope you like it.

Congratulations!!

Your site was reviewed and approved for the 1998 Cameo Services Creative Inspiration Award.

Congratulations,
What a fantastic site...... Your Web site has been approved and we would like to honour it with "The Voyager Bronze Award". Your combination of elegance and professionalism made your status with Design World a no-brainer. We endorse your Web site 100% and know that your skills will take you very far! Once again, congratulations on the award! Display it proudly.

Regards

We'd like the opportunity to give you our "Innovation Award!" I hope this encourages you to keep up the great work.

Great work with your web site, I was very impressed by the overall quality!...

Paul - You've done a nice job.

Hi Paul - I have visited your site and it is one of the best Bowie-fan sites around - keep up the great work.

David Bowie Wonderworld
Rating: 4.0/4.0

This enormous site is the creation of a Bowie fan from way back. It's a little cluttered and can take a dog's age to load, but once you start exploring, it's all worth the wait.

Paul - We are producing a television program on David Bowie called "Legends" for VH1 in the U.S. I was just checking out your web site. It is really amazing, looks great!

This site is incredible! VH1.com are putting up a page dedicated to DAVID BOWIE to celebrate his being made artist of the month for October. In association with that, I'd like to give you a VH1.com Best of the Web award.

I'm afraid once our users get to Little Wonderworld they won't want to leave! If my eyes go bleary reading the diaries and press clippings you've got up, I suppose I only have my own fanaticism to blame.

Rock on,

Little Wonderworld is also good. Paul (wisely) skips the lyrics pages, but has an excellent library of articles, which are easy to download and don't take up huge amounts of memory. He also features Bowie's 'diary' which was published in Mirabelle magazine in 1974-75. Silly, enjoyable and no references to cocaine!

"...Get some sleep you mad bastard!"

"...it's so BIG!"

Little Wonderworld is right up there with the very best of the myriad unofficial Bowie sites to have sprung up in the last few years. It's a hot mix of breaking news, gossip, reviews and trivia (as those wonderfully silly, though perversely enthralling, Mirabelle diaries attest!). But what would you expect from a man who's possibly been photographed with our man more times than any other fan (just see the 'Who Am I? section).

LITTLE WONDERWORLD
Unofficial but comprehensive site dedicated to the Thin White Duke and built by superfan Paul A. Kinder. We especially liked the jiggling David Bowie on the front page and the Bowie jokes in the Funstuff section.

Hey, Mr. Kinder, very nice new look you've got going on your site (bowiewonderworld). A clean job. I'm trying to do a clean up on BowieArt too, but I only have time for one page every now and then so that will be SO ongoing it will seem like forever to finish it. On the other hand, it's never finished is it. It's like those huge battleships that take a year to paint then they have to go back to the prow and atert all over again immediately they're finished. Except to complete the analogy they'd have to change colour each time. Pretty pink, maybe. I see officers considering fabrics from Libertys' or maybe a Wenge veneer.

"But, no, Peter. Wenge is SO this year, it will be ancient by the time we finish. Stay with warm pastels and they'll never let you down."

Thank you so much, Site people, for the good wishes. It made my morning. Yes, I do refer to all you Wildlifers and Wonderworlds and so on. I never get over how much effort you put into your work. It's extraordinarily mad and quite amazing.

Congratulations!

We have selected your site as a Surfers Choice Top 100 for 1998.

In the next week or so the Annual Surfers Choice Best of the Web voting will begin.

Please take the time to visit: www.surferschoiceawards.com

Many Thanks

23rd May 1999

SURFERS CHOICE

Surfers Choice Voting - First Results

THE VOTES HAVE BEEN COUNTED AND HERE ARE THE RESULTS:

The top 3 vote getters are listed below:

The World of MP3 - Platinum Award
ED Foods - Gold Award
Bowie Wonderworld - Silver Award

Let's all congratulate these 3 fine sites and their dedicated Webmasters. They receive the Surfers Choice - Peoples Choice Award. Platinum, Gold and Silver as listed above.

By the way, talk about close - there was only a 29 vote difference between Platinum and Silver!!!!

Best Regards

28th May 1999 / 1998

SURFERS CHOICE - THE JUDGES HAVE SPOKEN

16th October 2000

NME.COM (THE NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS)

2. David Bowie Little Wonderworld

Showered with awards and platitudes, this Bowie fan site is as complete and useable as any you'll find. The news is updated daily, but the highlights are gigographies and press archives stretching right back to Bowie's childhood.

NME.COM rates this site a 9 out of 9.
Rated 8 by other visitors.

22nd May 2001

mPulse.com

Dear David Bowie Wonderworld,

Congratulations! You've made it to the mPulse.com Top 10 Sites. We'd like to pass along an award recognizing your high profile on mPulse.com

Not only are congratulations in order, so is thank you. We know there are many music websites out there, but by registering with mPulse, using your tags, and uploading all your info, you are promoting what we feel is a really interesting, useful way of giving music fans a guide to great new music.

21st June 2007

straight.com

Geek of the Week site

David Bowie Wonderworld Fan Site - If you wonder sometimes, 'bout sound and vision, panicking in Detroit, or who looks a lot like Che Guevara, you must visit the David Bowie Wonderworld Fan Site. You won't have to stand on a chair to make your point of view.

26th January 2008

Gonzo the Great

Shout Out

Gonzo the Great says hello to Bowie Wonderworld.

7th February 2009

thecheese.co.nz

Website of the Week site

We love those fan sites on the 80s lunchbox because they are always written from an enthuisiastic fan perpective. This week's website of the week is no exception. Bowie Wonderworld is devoted to David Bowie and it's a "must see".