About Multimania

About company

Multimania is from the merger in late 1998, the community site Mygale.org and MultiMania Production founded in 1995 by Michel Meyer, Olivier Heckmann, Erik Robertson, Yves Tuet and Nicolas Malherbe, editor of the site and webzines cats The (Virtual) Baguette . The merger of the two websites gave birth to the site Multimania, which still offers a web hosting service, but this time by integrating advertising within web pages; this resulted in the first mobilizations in favor of a non-commercial web by users Mygale 1. The management of all returns to Michel Meyer and senior management to Olivier Heckmann. The founder of Mygale.org Frederic Cirera becomes technical director Multimania but leaves the company after six months. In 1999, Multimania becomes the third French-speaking web site in terms of visitors 2. Its main competitors are then Chez.com integrated within Tiscali before being revived by Free and iFrance, bought by Vivendi and ACC.