Airlock Alpha

In 1998, Michael Hinman created the website SyFy World and Greg Boubel created the website Star Trek Portal.^{[1][non-primary source needed]} In 2001, Boubel joined with Hinman, merging their two websites into SyFy Portal, under joint ownership.^{[1][non-primary source needed]} When Boubel left in 2007, Hinman created Quantum Global Media, incorporated in Florida, to hold his SyFy Portal website.^{[1][non-primary source needed]}

In February 2009, Hinman rebranded his website Airlock Alpha, having sold the SyFy Portal brand name to NBCUniversal, owner of the Sci Fi Channel;^{[1][non-primary source needed]} the cable television channel changed its own name to Syfy a month later.^[2] In 2011, reincorporated his holding company as Nexus Media Group.^{[3][non-primary source needed]}

The last new item posted to the website was dated 14 November 2018,^[4] and the domain had expired by no later than 20 February 2022.^[5][6]

Starting in 1999, with the SyFy Portal Genre Awards, later shortened to the Portal Awards, Airlock Alpha handed out fan-vote awards for genre television and movies until at least 2010,^[7] missing 2002 due to the September 11 attacks.^{[8][non-primary source needed]}

By 2010, awards had been presented in the categories of:^{[8][non-primary source needed]}