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.

See also

Internet in the United Kingdom List of broadband providers in the United Kingdom

References