Selling it off. What would you keep ?

From: Fred N. van Kempen <Fred.van.Kempen_at_microwalt.nl>
Date: Sat Nov 30 12:31:01 2002

> By the late '80's it covered most of Western Europe and the States
> including non-academic sites. CIX (Compulink Information
> Exchange) was
> founded in 1987, and Demon Internet in June 1992, both offering public
> services in the UK. Demon charged UKP10/month for dialup access.

In The Netherlands, Internet (not UUCP, but IP-based service) was simply
not affordable until the mid-to-late nineties. Demon, too, started off
as an UUCP provider- I worked with Cliff :) A lot of politics were
involved too, at least in The Netherlands. Even right now, if you not
an organization or a company, you *cannot* get a domain in the .nl space,
and several other totally BS rules.

(I got my Trailblazer UUCP link straight into the U.S. in 1988, because
we were denied a connection by NLnet (aka UUNET aka WorldCom.)

For regular people, I doubt one could get a decent and affordable conn in
1992 in the UK, Pete. Thats why Cliff started doing UUCP first :)

--fred
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