{"product_id":"the-first-days-of-the-internet-punk-art-and-the-world-wide-web-9781739772604","title":"The First Days Of The Internet: punk, art and the world wide web","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ivan Pope\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Psychagogic Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Psychagogic Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Internet - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEverybody got the Internet in the end but I got it first.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46447835119767,"sku":"9781739772604","price":1562.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781739772604.webp?v=1769141913","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-first-days-of-the-internet-punk-art-and-the-world-wide-web-9781739772604","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}