List of United Kingdom ISPs by age

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

United Kingdom ISPs by age

1. 1990 Pipex
2. 1992-06-01 Demon Internet
3. 1992 ExNet Initially as 'HelpEx' service^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
4. 1993 Pavilion^[5] (Sold to Easynet from 1 January 2001, but e-mail addresses remain extant under the pavilion.net domain)
5. 1994-10-13 Zetnet^[6][7]
6. 1994 Easynet
7. 1994 Dungeon Networks
8. 1995 Netdirect (NDO, now part of Namesco)
9. 1995 Internet Central^[8]
10. 1995 Flexnet
11. 1995 Power Internet Ltd^[9] (Powernet), now part of the Timico Technology Group^[10]
12. 1995 Unipalm-Pipex
13. 1995 Zen Internet
14. 1996 Lumison
15. 1996 Simwood^[11]
16. 1996 Claranet^[12]
17. 1996-11 Entanet
18. 1997 Force 9
19. 1997 Larknet
20. 1998 Elite Limited^[13]
21. 1998 Freeserve

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