Ivan Pope
Ivan Pope
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Ivan Pope was involved with many early Internet developments in the UK and across the world. He started networking in 1988 while a contemporary of Damien Hirst and the YBAs at art college in London. After graduation he went on to develop an early bulletin board systems for artists, ArtNet. He invented the cybercafe at London's ICA and was a founder of two of the first internet magazines, The World Wide Web Newsletter and .net magazine. In 1994 he founded Webmedia to professionalise the process of web site design and build. In 1996 he invented the domain name industry with the formation of NetNames. In 2000 he sold NetNames and joined the board of Netbenefit plc. He was also a founder director of Nominet. Since 2003 he has lived in Brighton with his two children and partner. He is currently creating a network of maker labs, Thingmakers and researching the 3D fabrication ecosystem. He tweets as @thingworld