1989-1999: Founding and launch, magazine, dot-com era IPO

Pierre Sernet, a French art collector, developed a system in the late 1980s to share images of artworks and their associated prices at auction through a digital database. In 1989, he founded the Centrox Corporation in New York City to monetize his new system, providing customers software for home computers that connected them to Centrox's database of art and auction prices, which the company eventually called Artnet.

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