Ivan Pope (born 1961) is a British technologist, involved in a number of early internet developments in the UK and across the world, including coining the term cybercafe at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts.

[1] After graduating from Goldsmiths College with a BA degree in Fine Art in 1990, Pope worked as an artist with Loophole Cinema for five years.

[2] The World Wide Web Newsletter (later 3W magazine) was created by Pope at Goldsmiths College Computer Centre early in 1993.

He worked from the Bath offices of Future Publishing on the first issues as Assistant Editor and also wrote extensively for the magazine during the first year of its existence.

[citation needed] Inspired by reports of a cafe with bulletin board access in the US, he coined the term cybercafe for a weekend in the ICA theatre as part of an art event called "Towards the Aesthetics of the Future".

[6] With Steve Bowbrick, Pope founded Webmedia, an early web development company whose first offices were in the basement of Cyberia.

Webmedia grew fast over the next two years, gaining early web accounts from the likes of Lloyds Bank and Lufthansa.