Sublink Network
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Sublink Network was a non-profit association founded in Italy
in 1989 to allow cost-sharing access to the Internet
.
The association for a few years had a UUCP
dialup link to Rutgers university
, but later obtained free support from Olivetti
who provided Internet mail and newsgroups (now named "groups" by google) feed.
At its peak in 1991-1995 Sublink Network counted around one hundred nodes distributed across the Italian territory.
Sublink Network had its own sublink.* newsgroup hierarchy and a cross link with the Italian branch of FidoNet
.
Sublink Network was registered with the sublink.org domain (this domain now belongs to a different organization not related to the original Sublink Network).
Sublink was the very first public (non-academic) internet email and newsgroup network in Italy, with very low access fees (around $100 a year), fast backbone modems running at 19200 bps
(the average modem was 2400 bps at that time), and fully registered to the NIC.
Its founders on September 25, 1989 were: Paolo Ventafridda (president), Paolo Pennisi, Marco Sacchi, Carlo Vellano, Davide Yachaya and Mauro Mozzarelli. The association was based in Milan, ITALY.
When after 1997, low cost PPP
commercial access to the Internet started to become available, interest for UUCP cost-share Internet feeds started to decline and the association was naturally dissolved.
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
in 1989 to allow cost-sharing access to the Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
.
The association for a few years had a UUCP
UUCP
UUCP is an abbreviation for Unix-to-Unix Copy. The term generally refers to a suite of computer programs and protocols allowing remote execution of commands and transfer of files, email and netnews between computers. Specifically, a command named uucp is one of the programs in the suite; it...
dialup link to Rutgers university
Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
, but later obtained free support from Olivetti
Olivetti
Olivetti S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of computers, printers and other business machines.- Founding :The company was founded as a typewriter manufacturer in 1908 in Ivrea, near Turin, by Camillo Olivetti. The firm was mainly developed by his son Adriano Olivetti...
who provided Internet mail and newsgroups (now named "groups" by google) feed.
At its peak in 1991-1995 Sublink Network counted around one hundred nodes distributed across the Italian territory.
Sublink Network had its own sublink.* newsgroup hierarchy and a cross link with the Italian branch of FidoNet
FidoNet
FidoNet is a worldwide computer network that is used for communication between bulletin board systems. It was most popular in the early to mid 1990s, prior to the introduction of easy and affordable access to the Internet...
.
Sublink Network was registered with the sublink.org domain (this domain now belongs to a different organization not related to the original Sublink Network).
Sublink was the very first public (non-academic) internet email and newsgroup network in Italy, with very low access fees (around $100 a year), fast backbone modems running at 19200 bps
Bit rate
In telecommunications and computing, bit rate is the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time....
(the average modem was 2400 bps at that time), and fully registered to the NIC.
Its founders on September 25, 1989 were: Paolo Ventafridda (president), Paolo Pennisi, Marco Sacchi, Carlo Vellano, Davide Yachaya and Mauro Mozzarelli. The association was based in Milan, ITALY.
When after 1997, low cost PPP
Point-to-Point Protocol
In networking, the Point-to-Point Protocol is a data link protocol commonly used in establishing a direct connection between two networking nodes...
commercial access to the Internet started to become available, interest for UUCP cost-share Internet feeds started to decline and the association was naturally dissolved.