Ten years of progress at tunnelbuilder.com1st April, 1999. The Internet bubble had popped, first generation dot.com companies had gone bust, and magazines were looking sick. Recession was the name of the game, and nowhere more so than in publishing, where advertisement revenues hit rock bottom. So we launched tunnelbuilder.com, a website with a great idea for high-quality news and low-cost advertisements, but with no readers and no advertisers. The banks did not think it a great idea, so we used our own finance. And that is the way it stayed. Read more. 14/09.