 He left the paper in 2000 when he became the editor-in-chief of Index.hu, although he stayed there as a columnist until the paper's eventual closure in October 2016, releasing an article on every Wednesday.Uj, together with András Nyírő, Gábor Gerényi and Balázs Kéki, founded Index on 17 May 1999 as a successor to Nyírő's Internetto.Although Uj was a regular contributor to both Nyírő's previous endavour, ABCD, and Internetto, with many of the website's staff already considering him a member, this was never an official relationship.