Digex

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Digex was an early provider of Internet services in the United States. Its corporate predicessor, Digital Express Group, provided dialup "Public Access Unix" shell accounts in the Baltimore-Washington region beginning in the fall of 1991. Digital Express Group, and thus Digex, was started by Doug Humphrey and Mike Doughney, in the basement of Mr. Humphrey's town house in Greenbelt, Maryland, in a fairly classic "Internet Startup" mode, offering dial-up access to the early Internet environment. Digex was a very early, if not the earliest, provider of "hosting" services, which would grow to dominate the company operations.

The company grew to offere enterprise web hosting services and Internet connectivity for businesses and government. Investors included Grotech Capital and Venrock Associates. Following a series of corporate mergers, divestitures and acquisitions involving Intermedia Communications, Worldcom, Allegiance Telecom and MCI, the remaining Digex web hosting services operation was acquired by Verizon Communications in the January 2006 Verizon/MCI merger. Digex has since been renamed Verizon IP Application Hosting.

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Digex was an early leader in streaming Internet video. In 1995, Digex launched ISP-TV, a network of linked Cu-SeeMe videoconferencing servers from multiple ISPs to provide for large-audience webcasts. In 1996, ISP-TV began producing original video content in one of the first "cyberstudios" in Laurel, MD. Shows included "Head" (a beer show), "Meeks Unfiltered" with MSBNC correspondent Brock Meeks, and "Real Time" a cyber-issue interview show.

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