1969
The Stooges
A wild iguana screams out of Detroit. Proto-punk is born.
Iggy Pop is the Godfather of punk.
Friggy PEP is the Degen Codefather.
PUNK IS NOT DEAD
From 1969 to web3: the pop-culture story behind every Friggy PEP trait.
1969
A wild iguana screams out of Detroit. Proto-punk is born.
Iggy Pop is the Godfather of punk.
Friggy PEP is the Degen Codefather.
1972
One eyelash, one bowler hat, one Ludwig van. Cinema gets a little bit horrorshow.
Meanwhile in New York, the Dolls stomp the stage in platform boots, lipstick and torn satin. Glam meets ultraviolence: proto-punk puts on its make-up.
1976
London, '76. Four kids swear live on teatime TV and wake up public enemy number one. Punk explodes.
Mohawks and spiked crests scare the whole country.
New York, a taxi driver asks: you talking to me?


1977
One, two, three, four…
First album in '76, then two more in '77: Leave Home and Rocket to Russia. The year the Ramones blow up. Before the crests and the safety pins, they were the forefathers of punk.


1979
Blow up the school, put on the varsity jacket. Punk goes to the movies, and Mad Max hits the road.
Meanwhile, ska crashes the party: Jamaican offbeats, checkerboard pants and punk energy on the same dancefloor. Keep the faith.
And metal plugs in: the New Wave of British Heavy Metal steals punk's raw speed and turns it up to eleven.



1984
A fist of the north star, a road warrior. The apocalypse wears studded leather, and even the Terminator steals his clothes from a gang of punks.
Billy Idol, a kid from the first punk wave of the '70s, now owns the screen: the '80s are his.



1989
A blond kid from Aberdeen records a dirty little album for 600 dollars. Grunge is the new punk.
In the arcades, Final Fight drops the Mad Gear gang: mohawks, leather and Poison. Punks become 16-bit bosses.




1988 · 1999
Neo-Tokyo explodes, the ghost hides in the shell, the red pill wakes you up. The future is punk.




Pop
Robots in helmets, a joker's girl, invaders from space and a spiky koopa king. Punk leaks into every screen, all the way into pixel art.
Friggy PEP is a tribute to the history of punk and its impact on pop culture.




1993
"Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age." Rebels swap guitars for cryptography.
The punks start writing code. Mailing lists, PGP, encrypted messages: numbers become the new noise, math the new weapon.


2008
A whitepaper signed by a ghost. No bank, no king, no permission. Trustless by design.
October 31: Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System lands on the cypherpunks' cryptography mailing list. Satoshi vanishes, the punk ethic stays: don't trust, verify.

2017
Pop culture goes online and becomes meme culture: remixed, shared, owned by everyone.
Wizards print magic internet money, wojaks get a mohawk, pixel punks get a price. Web3 inherits the DIY spirit.




2026
1976 digital artifUkts. Every number tells a year, every trait tells a story. 100% punk.
PUNK IS NOT DEAD
