Connect Business Information Network

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In 1988, Mike Muller, a former VP of Apple Computer, launched MacNET, a proprietary dial-up online network with a graphic user interface similar to AppleLink. The mainframe end was programmed by Robert Lissner, the author of AppleWorks. The terminal software, also called MacNET, was for sale through Macintosh software outlets and the network charged an hourly use fee. Use grew rapidly during the first years but there was significant competition from America Online when that service launched a year later on the Macintosh platform. Eventually, the MacNET service name and the company name were changed to CONNECT. The software remained MacNET on the Mac side and PCNet came out for the PC market. By the early 2000's, Connect became web-based and closed within several years of the widespread adoption of the WWW standard.

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