In Episode 3 of snakesoup, I interview Eva Pascoe, who was the co-founder of CYBERIA -- the first Internet café in the world, founded in London in 1994. Eva tells us about teaching David Bowie how to use the Internet, how she worked to make CYBERIA a women-friendly environment, and why online space used to allow way more freedom than it does now.
About Eva Pascoe: Eva Pascoe, born in Poland, studied Linguistics in Warsaw and came to the UK in 1986 to study Psychology and Ergonomics of Human-Computer Interaction, London University (Birkbeck College, BSc 1991). She co-founded Cyberia Internet Café, the world’s first Internet Café in 1994, pioneering the Internet's early online/offline communities, online secure payment and building the business globally across Europe and Asia – backed by Saatchi&Saatchi and Mick Jagger. She then became Managing Director of the first e-commerce fashion Website in Europe (MD of Zoom, the joint venture between Daily Mail and Arcadia Plc, Director 1997-2005) and developed the world’s first mobile retail for fashion using WAP platforms for Topshop.
Soundtrack: Spacer Woman, Charlie (1983)