Jim Andrews had graduated in the university with an English and Maths diploma before working as a full-time programmer. Then, he worked in a radio program which talked about literature. In 1990, Andrews returned to the university to study science computer. Just in that moment, Internet began to be famous in the whole world.

Furthermore, Jim Andrews always has had a big passion by music as we can see in his works on the web,that they are musical. In that year, 1990, he played the drumbs in a group called The Laughing Boot Quintet. He also published a literary magazine called And Yet using the PageMaker 2.0 program.

In his radio program, Fines Lines, he discovered some musical poetry authors like Gregory Whitehead or Helen Thorington (designer of turbulence.org). It was in that way of how Jim Andrews began to write with other musical poetry authors and to know more about this topic so that later, he will create his own web.

In 1995, he obtained Internet connection and he began to programme and to make his works throughout the web.

He worked with CorelDraw 2.01, Photoshop and bitmap programs to make visual poetry. In that time he had to work with scale of grey colours because there only was this in that time.

The magazine, where he worked, only published local writers, but he wanted to be in contact with writers of all over the world. Here, it is when Internet became an advantage. As he had studied Science Computer, he worked as a programmer/writer by his own. The major part of his animate work is with letters and words, Jim Andrews simply prefers to work with letters because they are easier to animate, and it’s more interesting for him the letters’shape than a word or a poem verse.

In 1997, he began to work with DHTML (dynamic html), the first composition with DHTML was created by Seattle Drift.

After, he created "enigma n" and "enigma n²". Both of them explore how the poetic meaning can be transported into another way throughout a lot of words on a paper.

From 1997 to 2000, Jim Andrews lived in Seattle, but before going to this place, he worked as a technical writer in the Network commerce.

The poem "Alice in Flatland" was created in 1991. We mustn’t forget that it’s not until 1995 when Jim Andrews has an Internet connection, by what it was a normal poem and at first sight it seemed simple but it had a difficult meaning owing to the mathematics elements, since the Jim’s purpose was to make a serious and mathematical poem.

We can see an evolution in Jim Andrews’ works since the context in which is created Alice in Flatland is not the same as his other works. We can say Alice in Flatland was one of his first works and he intended to make a serious and mathematical poem.

When Jim Andrews learnt to work with HTML, he made pop-up poems in 1996. These poems weren’t so serious as Alice in Flatland. Now, Jim Andrews likes that user takes his plays as a game.

In Alice in Flatland, you can follow the reading throughout the links. There is a big development between the Jim’s first creations and the latest ones.