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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/07/18 20:53, Lyndon Nerenberg
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> No, 'uunet' was a commercial UUCP hub, started up by Rick
Adams.<br>
> It handled a great volume of mail and news traffic, as well as
an<br>
> extensive public file archive. It eventually morphed into
Alternet,<br>
> one of the very first commercial Internet providers.
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Technically "Alternet" was a product/service provided by UUNET,<br>
the company established by Rick (and funding by Usenix) when<br>
he transferred the USENET node from seismo (Center for Seismic<br>
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Julf<br>
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