[9765] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Articles from yesterday mentioning related topics...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Fri Jan 21 00:45:49 1994
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 18:15:39 -0500
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
To: sdw@meaddata.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Stephen Williams's message of Thu, 20 Jan 1994 10:17:20 -0500 (EST) <9401201517.AA02878@jungle.meaddata.com>
>From: sdw@meaddata.com (Stephen Williams)
>> NETCOM, a five year old Silicon Valley start-up, was the first commercial
>> corporation to provide Internet access to the individual. Now, with a full
>
>Barry?
Yes, that's simply not true. I doubt netcom would even claim this. I
don't even believe they were second tho they were among the first
several and certainly, along with World, among the oldest of a class
of larger services of this type.
But I've never had anyone seriously challenge (e.g. a name and a date)
The World's claim to this particular trivium. The World started in
November of 1989 and was offering interactive internet connectivity
(telnet, ftp, etc.) to the general public around January 1990.
-Barry Shein
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