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Combined with InterServ's dial-up access, Internet in a Box provided a complete solution for members of the general public to access the Internet, a network previously available almost exclusively to government and collegiate users, or to the public only indirectly through e-mail gateways provided by hosted systems such as [[CompuServe]]. The inclusion of a web browser further gave access to the nascent [[World Wide Web]]. |
Combined with InterServ's dial-up access, Internet in a Box provided a complete solution for members of the general public to access the Internet, a network previously available almost exclusively to government and collegiate users, or to the public only indirectly through e-mail gateways provided by hosted systems such as [[CompuServe]]. The inclusion of a web browser further gave access to the nascent [[World Wide Web]]. |
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Two pioneering Internet books; Ed Krol's 'Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog' (US-1993) and a special edition of Sue Schofield's 'UK Internet Book' (UK 1994) were included in the US and European editions of the product. |
Two pioneering Internet books; Ed Krol's 'Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog' (US-1993) and a special edition of Sue Schofield's 'UK Internet Book' (UK 1994) were included in the US and European editions of the product. |
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==Spry, Inc.== |
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*[http://www.sueschofield.net Internet writer Sue Schofield's Web page.] |
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Revision as of 21:23, 8 February 2011
Internet in a Box (IBox) was one of the first commercially available Internet connection software packages available for sale to the public. Spry, Inc. produced the package, as well as starting up a commercial Internet service provider (ISP) called InterServ.
The IBox software included the Winsock and TCP/IP stack that were needed to connect a computer running Microsoft Windows to the Internet in 1994.[1] The IBox package also included a licensed copy of the Mosaic web browser called AIR Mosaic,.[2] AIR Mail (an email client), AIR News (an NNTP news client), AIR Telnet, AIR Gopher, and an FTP Network File Manager.
Combined with InterServ's dial-up access, Internet in a Box provided a complete solution for members of the general public to access the Internet, a network previously available almost exclusively to government and collegiate users, or to the public only indirectly through e-mail gateways provided by hosted systems such as CompuServe. The inclusion of a web browser further gave access to the nascent World Wide Web.
Two pioneering Internet books; Ed Krol's 'Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog' (US-1993) and a special edition of Sue Schofield's 'UK Internet Book' (UK 1994) were included in the US and European editions of the product.
Spry, Inc.
Spry, Inc. was a small software company headed up by David Pool in Seattle, Washington. In 1995 CompuServe bought Spry, Inc. for $100 million in cash and stock of H&R Block (the parent company of CompuServe).
References
- ^ Stewart, Bill. "Web Browser History". Retrieved 16 August 2010.
- ^ Cockburn, Andy; Jones, Steve (6 December 2000). "Which Way Now? Analysing and Easing Inadequacies in WWW Navigation" (PDF). CiteSeerX. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
External links
- Information Week article about the purchase of Spry, Inc.
- Internet writer Sue Schofield's Web page.
