List of UK ISPs by age

Following is a history of UK Internet Service Providers (ISPs), in order of the date they started trading.

  1. 1990 Pipex
  2. 1992-06-01 Demon Internet
  3. 1993 Pavilion[1] (Sold to Easynet from 1st January 2001, but web sites and e-mail addresses remain extant under the pavilion.net domain)
  4. 1994-10-13 Zetnet[2][3]
  5. 1994 Easynet
  6. 1994 Dungeon Networks
  7. 1995 Flexnet
  8. 1995 Power Internet Ltd
  9. 1995 Zen Internet
  10. 1996 Lumison
  11. 1996 Claranet[4]
  12. 1996-11 Entanet
  13. 1997 Larknet
  14. 1998 Freeserve
  15. 1999 Fast24

Notes and references

  1. ^ http://www.shotsmag.co.uk/interviews/2009/p_james/p_james.html
  2. ^ Smith, Marvin. "Fishing The Net........". Shetland Fishing News. Archived from the original on 2000-02-26. http://web.archive.org/web/20000226104655/http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/sfn/old/internet.htm. 
  3. ^ "Zetnet Internet Service". PC Home. January 1997. http://www.zetnet.co.uk/zetpages/pchome/. Retrieved 2007-05-31. 
  4. ^ "International Capabilities, Claranet UK". Claranet. http://www.uk.clara.net/why-claranet/international-capabilities. Retrieved 2009-09-15.