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

Mikhail Wiesel — translator from Italian and English, journalist, editor-in-chief of the Year of Literature 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 foundation… Anton Nosik was constantly creating something new. All his everyday activities were — in Mayakovsky's words — a journey into the unknown; he was always checking: can it be done this way? What will happen if we do it this way?.. But this book is not only a biography of a Hero of his time; it reflects the Time itself: the unprecedented freedom of the nineties, the emergence and development of Runet, the establishment of new media in the 2000s, the phenomenon of the blogosphere… A wealth of collected testimonies from eyewitnesses and direct participants creates a vivid and detailed portrait not just of one man — but of an entire era…