List of United Kingdom ISPs by age
The following is a history of UK Internet service providers (ISPs) in order of the date they started trading. == United Kingdom ISPs by age == 1985-6 GreenNet 1990 Pipex 1992-01-28 GEN (established in 1989, began operating as an ISP in 1992) 1992-06-01 Demon Internet 1992 ExNet Initially as 'HelpEx' service 1993 EUnet GB 1992 NTL 1993 Dungeon Network Systems - Rebranded as Flexnet in 1996 1993 Pavilion (Sold to Easynet from 1 January 2001, but e-mail addresses remain extant under the pavilion.net domain) 1994 Bogomip 1994-10-13 Zetnet 1994 Easynet 1994 U-NET 1995 Mailbox Internet 1995 Netdirect (NDO, now part of Namesco) 1995 Internet Central 1995 Anglianet 1995 Power Internet Ltd (Powernet), now part of the Timico Technology Group 1995 Unipalm-Pipex 1995 Zen Internet 1996 Direct Connection 1996 Metronet 1996 Lumison 1996 Simwood 1996 Claranet 1996-11 Entanet 1997 Force 9 1998 Larknet 1998 Freecom 1998 Elite Limited 1998 Freeserve 1999 Barclays launched Barclays.net., which was acquired by British Telecom in 2001.
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