[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: [Discuss] UUNet

[David Venable]

MadHat wrote:

>On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 14:03, Tom Adelstein wrote:
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>>UUNET and BBNPlanet go way back. They're both part of th original darpa 
>>project. uu.net provided mail services. In fact, I used to use them as 
>>my mail provider long ago.
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>UUNet is older than some members on this list. ;)  They were founded
>back in 1987, and are touted as being the first business ISP with a
>backbone network.  They were who you had to use if you wanted reliable
>connectivity to the Internet for many years.
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Until they were acquired by MCI, then they went downhill fast. A former 
employer used UUnet for years and we saw our service go downhill within 
months of the acquisition.

Dave