[ih] EUnet and "Global Internet Services"

[kilnam chon]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 6:23 AM Johan Helsingius via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> 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?
>

Teus Hagen and Daniel Karrenburg in Netherland who later set up RIPE NCC.

chon

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