Index.hu is a Hungarian news website covering both Hungarian and international news. In 2018, it was the most visited Hungarian website with an average of 1.5 million daily readers. While most of the website's articles are written in Hungarian, Index also publishes several articles in English every week. History 1995 to 1999: Internetto Index's predecessor, Internetto (often stylised as iNteRNeTTo) was founded in 1995 by Hungarian sociologist András Nyírő who also served as the website's first editor-in-chief. Internetto quickly rose to popularity, reaching 2000 readers a day by the summer of 1996, largely due to the website's coverage of IT-related news. The early days of Internetto also saw the launch of the site's own forum called Törzsasztal and several local editions such as iNTeRNeTTo.Szeged. They also began experimenting with the live coverage of events, starting with the 1995 Diáksziget. In 1996, the team behind Internetto launched Internet Expó, a virtual exhibition opened by Gyula Horn who served as the prime minister of Hungary at the time. This, along with live video interviews with several prominent public figures such as Horn and András Lovasi boosted Internetto's popularity even further. By 1999, Internetto averaged more than 20 thousand readers a day. Despite the website's rapid growth, the relationship between Nyírő and Internetto's owners, IDG Hungary had become sour by 1999. IDG Hungary wanted Internetto to remain focused on IT news, whereas Nyírő intended to keep broadening its focus. IDG informally warned the publication's staff of potentially selling or dissolving Internetto. Because of this, Nyírő, along with his colleagues Gábor Gerényi, Balázs Kéki, András Virág, and Péter Uj launched a company called URL Consulting which offered to buy Internetto for 13 or 15 million HUF in April 1999. The offer was rejected by IDG Hungary CEO István Bíró. Nyírő, Gerényi, and Virág were fired on 11 May 1999 as Bíró announced that he did not want to work together with anyone who supported the buyout. 1999 to 2002: Index's early days and the dot-com crash András Nyírő announced the launch of a new website, Index.hu, on 17 May 1999, just 6 days after his firing from Internetto. The first version of the website was almost a direct copy of Internetto, both in terms of design, and in its source code. Because of this, IDG Hungary sued Index but they eventually lost the lawsuits. Index also took all of Internetto's editorial staff of 26