Odd De Presno (born 1944) was a Norwegian writer and an early pioneer of online networks, and one of the representative figures in early internet writing. He focused on the relationship between computer networks and the everyday lives of ordinary people, and was skilled at introducing the online world to non-specialist readers in an accessible way. His writing combined informativeness with readability, helping readers understand online communication and how to obtain information at a time when the internet was not yet widespread. His representative work, The Online World, reflects his approach of bringing network knowledge to a broad audience and is regarded as one of the representative popular works on the early internet, inspiring readers who wished to understand online culture at the time. Publicly available information is currently limited, and only one of his works is included in the collection, so details of his life and the full range of his writing remain to be supplemented; nevertheless, his existing work shows his distinctive value as a popularizer of network knowledge and an early observer of the online world.
