Internet Magazine was a monthly print title launched in October 1994 by the UK publishing house, Emap

EMAP

Emap Limited is a British media company, specialising in the production of business-to-business magazines, and the organisation of business events and conferences...

. Its last issue, number 119, was published in July 2004.

History

Internet Magazine covered almost anything internet-related, as long as there was a consumer or small business slant. It was spun out of a now-defunct technical computer networking monthly called Datacom having been proposed by that magazine's then deputy editor Neil Ellul to its publisher Roger Green. The first issue of Internet appeared in October 1994 with a lead story focused on how businesses 'took the plunge' by starting up their own websites. Deemed 'the practical guide to what's on and where to go', it listed a showcase of internet content available on the World Wide Web

World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet...

, or by using FTP

File Transfer Protocol

File Transfer Protocol is a standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host to another host over a TCP-based network, such as the Internet. FTP is built on a client-server architecture and utilizes separate control and data connections between the client and server...

 or the Gopher protocol.

Gradually, the dot-com boom helped boost the magazine's popularity, and in the late 1990s its pagination quadrupled from 52 pages to more than 200.

Regular features included "Bookmarks of the Rich and Famous", in which a celebrity was asked their favourite websites. Featured celebrities included Kelly Brook

Kelly Brook

Kelly Brook is an English model, actress, entrepreneur, television presenter and Playboy model.-Early life:...

, Loyd Grossman

Loyd Grossman

Loyd Daniel Gilman Grossman, OBE, FSA is an American-British television presenter, chef and musician who has mainly worked in the UK.- Early life, education and honours :...

, Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett

Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE is an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels...

, Steve Redgrave

Steve Redgrave

Sir Steven Geoffrey Redgrave CBE is an English rower who won gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000. He has also won three Commonwealth Games gold medals and nine World Rowing Championships gold medals...

 and Martine McCutcheon

Martine McCutcheon

Martine McCutcheon is an English singer, television personality and Laurence Olivier Award-winning actress. McCutcheon had minor success as one third of the pop group Milan in the early 1990s; however, it was her role as Tiffany Mitchell in BBC's EastEnders that made her a household name in the UK...

. In 2000, Internet Magazine began hosting a regular 'Movers and Shakers' event which featured 50 of what it deemed the biggest names in the Internet industry. The first event included guests such as Bob Geldof

Bob Geldof

Robert Frederick Zenon "Bob" Geldof, KBE is an Irish singer, songwriter, author, occasional actor and political activist. He rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Irish rock band The Boomtown Rats in the late 1970s and early 1980s alongside the punk rock movement. The band had hits with his...

, who had established an internet travel website called Deckchair.com (now part of lastminute.com), as well as lastminute.com

Lastminute.com

lastminute.com is an online travel and leisure retailer. The company was founded by Martha Lane Fox and Brent Hoberman in 1998 and became an icon of the UK internet boom of the late 1990s, floating at the peak of the dot com bubble and trading on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol...

's founders, Brent Hoberman

Brent Hoberman

Brent Hoberman, together with Martha Lane Fox, founded Lastminute.com in 1998, an online travel and gift business that floated at the peak of the dot-com bubble and managed to survive the subsequent burst of the bubble....

 and Martha Lane Fox

Martha Lane Fox

Martha Lane Fox is an English businesswoman and charity trustee, who has been engaged as a public servant chairperson on various e-commerce projects and investigations...

. The last annual Movers and Shakers event was held in 2003.

Layout and content

From 1998 onwards, the magazine was divided into several sections including news, an internet interview, expert help, features and website reviews.

Its accompanying website, www.internet-magazine.com, was relaunched in 2001 to include daily news, a website of the week and several feature articles.

In 2003, a decision was made to redesign the magazine. A new masthead and font was introduced, and a more conscious decision to make the column layout more flexible.

Contributors

Regular contributors to the magazine included Angus Kennedy, author of the first few editions of the Rough Guide to the Internet (which initially used content that had appeared in Internet Magazine); Simon Waldman, (Director of Digital Publishing Guardian Newspapers); Lance Concannon;
Bill Thompson (technology writer)

Bill Thompson (technology writer)

Bill Thompson is an English technology writer, best known for his weekly column in the Technology section of BBC News Online and his appearances on Click, a radio show on the BBC World Service. He is also an Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow at City University London .Born in Jarrow, Thompson grew...

; Mike Slocombe, founder of the Brixton-based website Urban 75; Sean McManus; Ivan Pope

Ivan Pope

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 . Pope invented...

, internet publisher and inventor of the Cybercafe, Richard Dinnick

Richard Dinnick

Richard Dinnick is a British writer, who has written for many media including novels, audio dramas, short stories and comic strips. He works in the science-fiction, fantasy and thriller genres. He has written for several SF franchises including Doctor Who, Stargate, Sapphire & Steel and Space 1889...

 and Daniel Harvey, journalist and publisher of Transport Briefing.