The First Days Of The Internet: punk, art and the world wide web

by Ivan Pope

Overview

A memoir of how a boy went from punk rock in the 1970s to art school in the 1980s to inventing parts of the Internet in the 1990s.

Everybody got the Internet in the end but I got it first.

In 1993, when there were fewer than one hundred web sites in existence, I started the first Web magazine in the world. Then I invented the Cybercafé, started a web agency, and created the domain name industry, all before most people knew there was an Internet.

My entrepreneurial life had started in the 1970s after the Sex Pistols lobbed a grenade into polite society. I became a teenage punk publisher. By the 1980s I was a Goldsmiths art student who did battle with Damien Hirst and the YBAs. Then I discovered the internet.

At the start of the new millennium the shares I had received for my Internet company were worth sixty million pounds. Then the roundabout stopped and the markets collapsed. Within a year the money was all gone.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781739772697
Publisher:	Psychagogic Press Limited
Publication date:	01/31/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	294
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Ivan Pope is a writer, artist and long distance cyclist who lives in Brighton. He originally graduated from Goldsmiths College Fine Art BA. was involved with a number of early internet developments in the UK and across the world. He invented the cybercafe at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts and founded the world's first web magazine, The World Wide Web Newsletter. He has taught at art colleges in London, Newport and Brighton. He is now a writer of fiction and psychogeographic non-fiction. He is currently undertaking a PhD in creative non-fiction at Plymouth University.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Pope

Table of Contents

The First Days Of The Internet

The Punk Years

Internet Timeline 1976

Everybody Wants to Bum A Ride

The Art Years

Internet Timeline 1988

London Calling

Young British Anarchists

Internet Timeline 1990

Revelation

Beneath The Pavement, The Internet

The Internet Years

Internet Timeline 1991

The Matrix

Internet Timeline 1992

Finding Narnia

Internet Timeline 1993

Only Connect

Travels in Cyberspace

Internet Timeline 1994

Birth of the CyberCafé

Internet Timeline 1995

Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom

Internet Timeline 1996

The Bubble Catches Fire

Internet Timeline 1997

Megalomedia

Internet Timeline 1998

The Domain Name Wars

Webmedia Ltd, 1994-1998

Internet Timeline 1999

Last Days of the New World

What a Long Strange Trip It's Been

Internet Timeline 2000

Decline and Fall