UUNET, founded in 1987, was one of the first and largest commercial Internet service providers and one of the early Tier 1 networks. It was based in Northern...
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Rick Adams (Internet pioneer) (section Founding UUNET)
Adams, Jr. is an American Internet pioneer. He is known as the founder of UUNET, which, in the mid and late 1990s, was the world's largest Internet Service...
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Pipex (redirect from UUNET/PIPEX)
Pipex was sold to UUNet in November 1995 for £150 million and became UUNet/Pipex. The brand became known as Worldcom Pipex, after UUnet merged with MFS...
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In 1997, the foundation sold off its commercial networking operations to UUNET (now part of Verizon), resulting in an endowment with which it makes grants...
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Internet users sent complaints to UUNET, the Internet service provider hosting the account of Serdar Argic. UUNET never took any action based on the...
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ISP to change their policies. Notable cases include actions taken against UUNET, CompuServe, Excite@Home, and Google Groups. There are three types of Usenet...
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restructuring of Usenet newsgroups that took place in 1987. B News maintainer and UUNET founder Rick Adams is generally considered to be the initiator of the Renaming...
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with share code DTC. In 1996, Datatec launched a joint venture with UUNET to form UUNET Africa, an internet service provider. In 1997, the company began...
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Germanic languages, including Old English The letter combination of uu UUNET, Internet Service Provider commonly referred to as 'UU' Unique users, may...
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Communications Company (1996), and MCI in 1998. The acquisition of MFS included UUNET Technologies, Inc., which had been acquired by MFS shortly before the merger...
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American baseball player Rick Adams (Internet pioneer), American founder of UUNET Rick Adams (television presenter) (born 1972), English television presenter...
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public offering. In April 1996, the company announced the acquisition of UUNET. In August 1996, WorldCom announced the acquisition of the company and the...
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Advanced Network and Services (ANS) DARPA (U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) InterNIC NSF (U.S. National Science Foundation) PSINet UUNet...
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one of the first UUCP connections from Germany to the United States (via UUNET), and from November 1989 it also offered Internet connectivity mainly to...
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connected to PSINet, with Telebit modems, international connectivity moved to UUNet in 1991. Real IP connections arrived in 1992, with a direct PIPEX (UK) 64 kbit/s...
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Stride, Inc., Verizon Business (formerly MCI, formerly WorldCom, originally UUNET), and Network Solutions, which began as the InterNIC – the registry where...
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a few rack units. Customers such as AOL, Earthlink, Demon Internet, and UUnet purchased over two million dialup ports worth of MAX TNT access servers...
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PIPEX was sold to UUNet in November 1995 for GBP150 million, where it became UUNET/PIPEX. Dawe became Head of European Operations for UUNet Inc., with over...
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service providers emerged in the same general time period: AlterNet (built by UUNET), PSINet and CERFnet. During the period when NSFNET was being established...
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described in RFC 850 and RFC 1036. Releases from 2.10.2 were maintained by UUNET founder Rick Adams. B News introduced numerous changes from its predecessor...
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Donn Seeley. Jolitz, Seeley and Trent Hein were working for Rick Adams' UUNET at the time and became BSDI's first employees when the company began operations...
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