• UUNET Technologies, Inc., formerly UUNET Communications Services, was an American commercial Internet service provider. Founded in 1987, it was one of...
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • share code of 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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  • American baseball player Rick Adams (Internet pioneer), American founder of UUNET Rick Adams (television presenter) (born 1972), English television presenter...
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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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    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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  • links 1986 (1986): Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) 1987 (1987): UUNET founded 1988 (1988): NSFNET upgraded to 1.5 Mbit/s (T1) 1988 (1988): Morris...
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    Software Tradex Technologies Transmeta uBid United Online USinternetworking UUNET VA Linux Systems Verio VerticalNet Vignette Corporation WebChat Broadcasting...
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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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    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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  • reorganization". Newsgroup: news.announce.newgroups. Usenet: 836945105.13229@uunet.uu.net. Retrieved 2009-06-03Also posted to news.groups,news.admin.net-abuse...
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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 JIDF...
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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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    links 1986 (1986): Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) 1987 (1987): UUNET founded 1988 (1988): NSFNET upgraded to 1.5 Mbit/s (T1) 1988 (1988): Morris...
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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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    corporate executive. He became the Chief Executive Officer of UUNET Technologies in June 1994. UUNET was purchased by MFS, later taken over by WorldCom, which...
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    links 1986 (1986): Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) 1987 (1987): UUNET founded 1988 (1988): NSFNET upgraded to 1.5 Mbit/s (T1) 1988 (1988): Morris...
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  • several ISPs, such as Pipex Internet Solution (Swaziland), Net2000 (Kenya), UUNET (Namibia) and Swift Global (Uganda). In 1998, Prodigy sold the company to...
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  • company deployed this shared infrastructure in a Montreal data center run by UUNET, and connected it to customers' servers within the same data center. In...
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