Selling it off. What would you keep ?

From: Peter Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Sat Nov 30 16:27:01 2002

On Nov 30, 19:31, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:

> 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 :)

But you *could* -- that was my point. In 1992, Demon made that possible
with dialup IP (not UUCP), and it grew very quickly, from an initial base
of 200 users. At least one of my friends had an account back then -- I
know, because I used it. And by 1994 when I started at York University,
Demon Internet was well enough established that several students had dialup
accounts, and other companies had followed Demon's lead and produced a very
competitive market.

CIX did it before that, though it was restricted, as you suggest. And I'm
not sure when they moved from UUCP to whatever else they did. The company
I worked for at the time had .co.uk accounts in 1989 or 1990 (but I don't
 know who the provider was).

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York
Received on Sat Nov 30 2002 - 16:27:01 GMT

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