[ih] EUnet and "Global Internet Services"

Johan Helsingius julf at Julf.com
Sun Jan 22 08:23:39 PST 2023


As some of you might remember, EUnet started out as an informal
Europe-wide UUCP/USENET collaboration network under the auspices
of the European UNIX User Group (EUUG), moving to TCP/IP and becoming
a bunch of commercial ISPs in various countries, many of whom formed
the Europe-wide ISP EUnet International that then got acquired by Qwest
and turned into the ill-fated KPN/Qwest joint venture, innovatively
named KPNQwest that failed in the dotcom crash when the parent companies
dropped their support.

As an old EUnetter I was surprised to come across https://eunet.com/,
copyrighted 1982-2023 to "Global Internet Services" that seems to be
a US-based entity, but using the original EUnet logo and with a
brief history of EUnet at https://eunet.com/?page=vz

Any idea who these guys are?

	Julf



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