>> And, for the record, it's pretty widely acknowledge that "The World" >> (Barry Shein) was the world's first commercial ISP - offering shell >> access in 1989, and at some point started offering PPP dial-up >> services. As I recall, they were a UUnet POP. > yep. and uunet and psi were hallucinations. can we please not rewrite > well-known history? > or are you equating shell access with isp? that would be novel. unix > shell != internet.
btw, not do denigrate what barry did. a commercial unix bbs connected to the real internet was significant. the left coasties were doing free stuff, the well, community memory, ... and barry created a viable bbs commercial service which still survives (i presume). a significant achievement. randy