On Jul 11, 2014, at 8:18 PM, Randy Bush <ra...@psg.com> wrote: >>> And, for the record, it's pretty widely acknowledge that "The World" >>> (Barry Shein) was the world's first commercial ISP - offering shell >>> access in 1989, and at some point started offering PPP dial-up >>> services. As I recall, they were a UUnet POP. >> yep. and uunet and psi were hallucinations. can we please not rewrite >> well-known history? >> or are you equating shell access with isp? that would be novel. unix >> shell != internet. > > btw, not do denigrate what barry did. a commercial unix bbs connected > to the real internet was significant. the left coasties were doing free > stuff, the well, community memory, ... and barry created a viable bbs > commercial service which still survives (i presume). a significant > achievement. > > randy
Not to take away from Barry, but around that same time, some of us left coasts were also helping to build Netcom as a viable commercial entity providing shell and later PPP and dedicated line access (DS0, T1). Owen