I forgot to comment that the statement that -
The internet was around in the 1993/94 period but was still in its early stages, so documentation of what happened is sparse at best.
- is an understatement! 1994 was the year I logged onto the Internet for the first time and it was a vastly different place than it is today. Even the ways to log on/interact were vastly different. Many outlets were purely text based, like the Usenet newsgroups - though people also gathered on services like AOL or Prodigy or Compuserve - but all of those services have gone the way of the dinosaurs, leaving little to nothing of themselves behind. So, even if the situation with Innovation had been thoroughly discussed at the time, it's not likely that any of it could be tracked down today.
To put the differences between 1994 and now in an even greater perspective, the computer language that the forum's system is written in (and which thousands of today's most popular Web sites are also written in) didn't even exist in 1994...