Ivan Pope
Ivan Pope | |
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 Ivan Pope onOxford Street, Londonin 2008 | |
| Born | 1961 (age 62–63) |
| Occupation | Technologist |
| Years active | 1990s–present |
| Website | https:// ivanpope / |
Ivan Pope(born 1961) is aBritishtechnologist, involved in a number of earlyinternetdevelopments in the UK and across the world, including coining the termcybercafeat London'sInstitute of Contemporary Arts.He was a founder of two of the first internet magazines, The World Wide Web Newsletter, and later.net magazinein the UK. In 1994 he founded Webmedia to professionalise the process of web site design and build. In 1995 he was involved with the creation of thedomain name managementcompanyNetNames.Pope is now a writer and a noted proponent of thedérive.
Biography
[edit]Pope was born in 1961, the son of Patricia Pirard, a French national, andMarius Pope,a south-African born journalist of Lithuanian Jewish descent. His younger brother is the photographerPat Pope.[1]
Work
[edit]3W and internet magazines
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After graduating fromGoldsmiths Collegewith a BA degree in Fine Art in 1990, Pope worked as an artist with Loophole Cinema for five years.[2]The World Wide Web Newsletter (later3Wmagazine) was created by Pope atGoldsmiths CollegeComputer Centre early in 1993.[3]The magazine was conceived as a general information source to promoteinternetuse. The name was taken from theWorld Wide Webproject ofTim Berners-Leeand the first issue was published in late 1993, reporting at the time: "there are under 100 web servers in the world".
3Wopened up many opportunities and Pope left Goldsmiths College to concentrate onweb developmentwork. Pope attended the first London Internet World exhibition in 1994 as an exhibitor with3Wmagazine. He was hired byTime Outmagazine in London to consult on their early web development.
During 1994 Pope was asked byFuture Publishingto join the team working on the first consumer internet magazine,.net.He worked from the Bath offices of Future Publishing on the first issues as Assistant Editor and also wrote extensively for the magazine during the first year of its existence.
Cybercafe
[edit]Pope was asked to curate an internet component for an arts symposium held at theInstitute of Contemporary Artsin London in March 1994. Inspired by reports of a cafe with bulletin board access in the US, he coined the termcybercafefor a weekend in the ICA theatre as part of an event called "Towards the Aesthetics of the Future", Placing internet accessApple Macson the cafe style tables, Pope created aninternet cafeconcept.[4][5]
Pope andinternet artistHeath Buntingplanned to open London's firstcybercafein 1994, although were beaten to it byCyberia.[6]
WithSteve Bowbrick,Pope foundedWebmedia,an early web development company whose first offices were in the basement of Cyberia.[7]The aim of Webmedia was to professionalise the design and build of web sites, a process that did not exist at that time. Webmedia grew fast over the next two years, gaining early web accounts from the likes of Lloyds Bank and Lufthansa.[8]
Netnames and Nominet
[edit]While managing this fast growing company and working with the nascent web industry, Pope stumbled across domain name registration and foundedNetNamesin 1995 to handle global name registrations for companies and individuals.[9]In 1996 Pope objected to the uncontrolled way in whichNominetbegan registering UK domain names for an annual fee.[10] At the time there were no specialist domain name companies and NetNames quickly gained a reputation for specialist knowledge in what became an explosive space.
In 1997 Pope separated NetNames from Webmedia, and in 2000 Pope sold NetNames to Netbenefit NBT, then a LSE listed UK company. He joined the board of Netbenefit and was briefly chair, before leaving in 2001.
By the end of the nineties Pope had been instrumental in the formation of a UK namespace organisation,Nominet UK,a non-profit that still manages the.uknamespace.[11]
Start-ups
[edit]In 2006 Pope founded a widget management company,Snipperoo.He was a blogger and authority on the subject ofweb widgets.He has spoken atWidgetsLive!andWidgetcon.On 6 December 2007 he created Europe's first conference in digital Brighton dedicated to web widgets,Widgetygoodness.[12]
He was the founder of Fabrivan,[13][14]Thingmakers[15]and Shapie Me.[16]
Bibliography
[edit]- Internet UK.Prentice Hall, 1995.ISBN9780131909502
- The First Days of the Internet.Self-published. 2021.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Ben Hatton (18 June 2018)."Appeal launched to help photographer Pat Pope after major stroke".Kentlive News.Retrieved16 November2019.
- ^"Loophole Cinema".Gregpope.org.
- ^"Ivan Pope - Technology - The Guardian".The Guardian.5 October 1999.
- ^Esharenana E. Adomi (editor),Security and Software for Cybercafes,2008.ISBN978-1599049052
- ^The Weird, Sketchy History of Internet CafesGizmodo.(20 November 2015). Bryan Lufkin
- ^Tom Wilkie (12 August 1994)."Computers: Cybernaut replays love game on the Net: Tom Wilkie meets a 'geek' comedian running a computer cafe to complement his one-man show in Edinburgh".Independent.
- ^Think Big. Stay Small. Make MoneyWired.(December 1996). Steve Shipside.
- ^Richard Poynder (2 June 1997)."Web Designers Face a Squeeze".The Wall Street Journal.
- ^NetBenefit Acquires NetNamesInternetnews. (16 December 1999). John Lewell.
- ^"UK Web site owners to be charged for co.uk address".Network News. 17 April 1996. Archived fromthe originalon 14 November 1999.
- ^"the internet - think global act local - a brief Nominet history of uk domains".Trefor.net.25 November 2010.
- ^"Widgety Goodness 2007 - Europe's first Widget Conference".Responsesource.23 October 2007.
- ^Summary: 24 September: 3D Printing- How Far Will It Go?Cybersalon.org. (16 August 2013).
- ^5 -- Ivan Pope -- Looking SidewaysLookingsideways.net (6 October 2013). Andrew Sleigh.
- ^"Get started with 3D printing".The Guardian.11 March 2014.
- ^"3D printing: adding another dimension to marketing's future".Econsultancy.5 June 2015.
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