EUnet

For the Belgrade-based internet brand, see EUnet (Serbia).

EUnet was a very loose collaboration of individual European UNIX sites in the 1980s that evolved into the fully commercial entity EUnet International Ltd in 1996. It was sold to Qwest in 1998. EUnet played a decisive role in the adoption of TCP/IP in Europe beginning in 1988.

A separate company, EUnet GB, was founded in 1993 in the United Kingdom, which also played a role in the early commercial Internet in the UK.

History

The roots of EUnet, originally an abbreviation for European UNIX Network, go back to 1982 under the auspices of the EUUG (European UNIX Users Group), later EurOpen, and the first international UUCP connections.[1][2][3][4]

FNET was the French branch of EUnet.[5]

Once there was a central European backbone node that was separate from the expensive telecom network, TCP/IP was adopted in place of store and forward. This enabled EUnet to connect with NSFNET in the US and with CERN’s TCP/IP connections.[6]

On January 1, 1990 EUnet began selling Internet access to non-academic customers in the Netherlands,[7] making them one of the first companies to sell Internet access to the general public. EUnet provided local service through a respective national EUnet business partner in many European countries.

In 1990 the Soviet IP-based network RELCOM, mostly operated by DEMOS-powered computers, was connected to the EUnet.[8]

EUnet GB Ltd was founded in the United Kingdom by a group of academics as a commercial Internet Service Provider (ISP) in 1993.[9] Jim Omand, the Chairman of EUnet GB, worked with EUnet Europe to form a pan-European Eunet in 1994.[10]

In April 1998 the company together with nearly all of the national European business partners of EUnet was sold to Qwest Communications International,[11] which in turn later merged EUnet into the ill-fated joint-venture KPNQwest.[12] In 2000, it was estimated that KPNQwest was carrying more than 50% of European IP traffic.[13] Some of the ISPs operating under the name EUnet today can be traced back to the original EUnet.

Timeline

  • 1982 UUCP links established between 4 countries (UK, Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden).[14]
  • 1984 kremvax April Fools Joke.[15]
  • 1986 FNET, the French branch of EUnet, converted from UUCP to TCP/IP.[5]
  • 1988 First connection in Europe to NSFnet by CWI, a Dutch computing centre.[16][17]
  • 1990 First offerings for "all comers".[7]
  • 1993 GBnet Ltd becomes EUnet GB Ltd.[18][10]
  • 1994 EUnet GB and EUnet Europe form a pan-European Eunet.[10]
  • 1994 EUnet DE purchased by UUnet.[10]
  • 1995 EUnet GB Ltd sold to PSI.[10]
  • 1996 EUnet International formed by share swaps with seven of the national organisations.[19]
  • 1998 Sale to Qwest for $154.4 million.[11]

Legacy

Further information: Protocol Wars

Most national EUnet affiliates or subsidiaries predated other commercial Internet offerings in the respective countries by many years. Until the early 1990s, nearly every European country had a telecommunications monopoly with an incumbent national PTT. Commercial and non-commercial provision of telecommunications services was prohibited or, at least, took place in a legal "grey zone". During the same period, as part of an industrial political strategy to stop US domination of future network technology, the European Community embarked on efforts to promote OSI protocols, founding for example RARE and associated national "research" network operators (DFN, SURFnet, SWITCH to name a few). During this period, EUnet played an important and decisive role in the adoption of TCP/IP in Europe, beginning in 1988.[20]

People

EUnet staff meeting.

The following people were involved in EUnet:

See also

References

  1. ^ "Breaking Rules to Break Ground in Global Internet's Earliest Days | Internet Hall of Fame". www.internethalloffame.org. 10 December 2016. Retrieved 2020-04-03.
  2. ^ a b "Teus Hagen | Internet Hall of Fame". internethalloffame.org. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  3. ^ Hauben, Michael; Hauben, Ronda (1998-08-03). "On the Early Days of Usenet: The Roots of the Cooperative Online Culture. (Chapter 10)". First Monday. 3 (8). doi:10.5210/fm.v3i8.613. ISSN 1396-0466.
  4. ^ "6th UK Network Operators' Forum Meeting Agenda". www.uknof.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2007-06-21. Retrieved 2020-02-12. See "15:00 Starting the Commercial Internet in the UK (Peter Houlder)"
  5. ^ a b "The path to digital literacy and network culture in France (1980s to 1990s)". The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories. Taylor & Francis. 2017. pp. 84–89. ISBN 978-1317607656.
  6. ^ "Daniel Karrenberg Helped Bring the Internet to Europe; Now He Keeps It Running". Internet Hall of Fame. 30 August 2012. Retrieved 2020-04-03.
  7. ^ a b "Stichting NLnet Jaarverslag 1990". nlnet.nl.
  8. ^ "Как в СССР появился интернет и почему программисты не боялись цензуры". Rambler. 2016-10-22. Archived from the original on 2016-10-26. Retrieved 2019-12-08. Первое подключение СССР к интернету произошло 28 августа 1990 года, когда программисты с Овчинниковской набережной обменялись электронными письмами с коллегами из университета Хельсинки. Финляндия была выбрана не случайно: после московской Олимпиады это была единственная страна, с которой сохранилась автоматическая телефонная связь. Вскоре «Релкому» был открыт доступ в общеевропейскую сеть, EUnet. 19 сентября от имени советских пользователей Unix Антонов зарегистрировал домен .su — так появился новый сегмент интернета.
  9. ^ Mansell, Robin (2002). Inside the Communication Revolution: Evolving Patterns of Social and Technical Interaction. Oxford University Press. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-19-829656-0.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g Houlder, Peter (January 19, 2007). "Starting the Commercial Internet in the UK" (PDF). 6th UK Network Operators' Forum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-02-13. Retrieved 2020-02-12.
  11. ^ a b "Qwest to Buy Internet Provider EUnet of Europe for $154 Million". Wall Street Journal. 26 March 1998. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
  12. ^ "KPN and Qwest Form $700 Million European Fiber Network Team". www.fiberopticsonline.com. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  13. ^ KPNQwest hat sein Netz abgeschaltet, heise.de, July 24, 2002.
  14. ^ http://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave.Marshall/Internet/node16.html Cardiff University/Dave Marshall, History of the internet
  15. ^ http://godfatherof.nl/kremvax.html The Kremvax Hoax
  16. ^ a b "CWI History: details". CWI. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  17. ^ "Kees Neggers: Global Networking Requires Global Collaboration | Internet Hall of Fame". www.internethalloffame.org. 9 September 2016. Retrieved 2020-04-03.
  18. ^ Mansell, Robin (2002). Inside the Communication Revolution: Evolving Patterns of Social and Technical Interaction. Oxford University Press. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-19-829656-0.
  19. ^ "EUnet Announces Major Restructuring". 1996-11-04. Archived from the original on 1996-11-04. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  20. ^ Fluckiger, Francois (February 2000). "The European Researchers' Network" (PDF). La Recherche (328).
  21. ^ "Daniel Karrenberg | Internet Hall of Fame". internethalloffame.org. Retrieved 2020-02-14.

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