[128525] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: off-topic: summary on Internet traffic growth History
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Wed Aug 11 15:34:07 2010
To: Chris Boyd <cboyd@gizmopartners.com>
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:30:37 -0400
In-Reply-To: <06D9EF2B-8D2E-4F7F-995C-4D7D3831FF57@gizmopartners.com> (Chris
Boyd's message of "Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:10:05 -0500")
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>, Andrew Odlyzko <odlyzko@umn.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Chris Boyd <cboyd@gizmopartners.com> writes:
> My recollection is that Worldcom bought out MFS. UUnet was a later
> acquisition by the Worldcom monster (no, no biases here :-).
MFS acquired UUnet Technologies on 12 August 1996.
On 31 December 1996, MFS "merged with and into WorldCom, Inc" although
it sure looked like an acquisition to those of us who were watching
from the sidelines.
-r
