Who is Doctor Who?, later titled Defending the Earth!, was a website released on 24 March2005[1] to coincide with the the 2005 series of Doctor Who, one of several websites created at that time. On 24 March, the Doctor Who website added a link to Who is Doctor Who?, visible as "Lies", after the site updated to focus on Rose.[1]
Everything on this website is told from an in-universe perspective, as if you were reading the very pages on the in-universe website itself.
In late September2006, the Defending the Earth! website was nominated for a Y Design Award at the London Design Festival.[3]
While series one of Doctor Who was being broadcast, each short story was released on the homepage of the site, before being moved to a subdirectory. For example: "/index1.shtml". The number would change for each story, so PROSE: Dummy Massacre, the second short story on the site, would be under "/index2.shtml", and so on. By 2 April2006,[4] all of the stories had been filed under a subdirectory, and a new home page was released, and periodically accompanied by short, two-part webcasts. Unfortunately, these seem to be no longer accessible, and there are seemingly no copies online. The webcasts ceased to be released after Mickey's departure in TV: The Age of Steel, with only games being released afterwards.
Along the span of time in which the website was updated with new prose material, there were several fictional "webmasters": Clive Finch, who appeared in one story until his death in TV: Rose; Mickey Smith, who appeared in eighteen stories, until his departure in TV: The Age of Steel; and David Roberts, identified only as "a friend", who appeared in three stories, but the site was left abandonded after the release of Art Attack, leaving David's fate unresolved.
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