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A Brief History of the Internet in New Brunswick

A Brief History of the Internet in New Brunswick. In the Beginning. History of the Internet in New Brunswick 1994

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A Brief History of the Internet in New Brunswick

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  1. A Brief History of the Internet in New Brunswick

  2. In the Beginning • History of the Internet in New Brunswick • 1994 • Dale Edgar writes DOS package of applications to do dialing, news, mail and gopher. He calls his company Cybernetic Control Inc., and the package is CommSet. Tim Smith works for Dale and they write code, all of which is in X86 assembler. NBTel starts distributing it as their standard package. • NBTel launches a new Community Net service with no-fixed IP address. Price is $35 a month flat rate. Modems are completely flooded when people won't hang up. People would come home after work and sign on in case they wanted to use the Internet later that evening. Checking the mail every 5 minutes made sure your connection didn't time out and drop the connection.

  3. Location, Location, and Location • Find a Business Name • Find a Domain Name • Trademark a name for the product

  4. Sleeping with NBTel • 1995 • NBTel becomes concerned about legalities of distributing all the shareware that is on the market. • Professor XXXX in Sackville forms Internet Software Technologies (IST) with Chris MacNeil and Peter Crawshaw who build a windows based package of client software. It gradually replaces COMMSET as the NBTel standard package.

  5. Windows Tools for the Internet • Gopher

  6. Europe Bound • Partnership with W3Internet

  7. The Giant Hand of Netscape • 1996 • In the words of a former NBTel executive “We work out a deal with Netscape to distribute their software instead of IST.”

  8. Partnership with MKS ? • Mortice Kern Software (MKS) • $50, 000 for the non-exclusive rights to Internet Express “code” (C++) • What is the “hitch” ?

  9. New Products ? • Peter Crawshaw created a shareware HTML editor, HTMLed • We market it as shareware, and produce a professional version • Web site (1997)

  10. HTMLed

  11. HTMLed Pro

  12. Funding ? (ACOA and Beyond) • Money$$ from the Province ? • Money from ACOA ? • Bilingual software ? • New product offering ????

  13. Ride the Carouselle

  14. Free Tools …the end of a dream ? • Netscape free • IE Free • Web page creation software “free” • In the words of John MacAfee “If Microsoft is in your business “sector”, move to another business”

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