Creator. The Life and Adventures of Anton Nosik, the Father of Runet, Trickster, Blogger, and Pioneer, with a Description of Three Eras of the Internet in Russia

Mikhail Vizel — translator from Italian and English, journalist, editor-in-chief of the Literature Year portal. The first web design studio, the first regular web review, the first professional internet newspaper, the first news agency, the first blog, the first charitable... internet fund… Anton Nosik was always creating something new. All his daily activities were — in Mayakovsky's words — a journey into the unknown, he was constantly checking: can it be done this way? What will happen if it’s done like this?.. But this book is not only a biography of a Hero of his Time; it reflects Time itself: the unprecedented freedom of the nineties, the birth and development of Runet, the establishment of new media in the zeroes, the phenomenon of the blogosphere… A multitude of collected testimonies from eyewitnesses and direct participants create a vivid and detailed portrait of not just one person — but of an entire era…