Adam Internet
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| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | Adelaide, South Australia (1992) |
| Headquarters | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Key people | Greg Hicks, Founder Scott Hicks, Managing Director |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Products | Broadband Dialup Colocation DNS Webhosting VoIP VPN VPDN |
| Employees | 100 est. (2008) |
| Website | www.adam.com.au |
Adam Internet is an Australian Internet service provider.
[edit] Background
Originally founded in 1986 as the Adelaide Amiga club, Adam Internet grew out of the original bulletin board system of the Adelaide Amiga User Group. The bulletin board was setup in 1987 and was originally run by the user group, but was co-opted by its SysOp, Greg Hicks. In 1989 it transformed into a commercial multi-line TBBS-based bulletin board, which, at the time, was the largest Bulletin Board System in the southern hemisphere, and for many years was the most popular in Adelaide.
With 100 staff members[1] and a customer base of 75,000+[2]; in 2006 Adam Internet held 35% of South Australia's Internet Market. [3]
Adam Internet provides a range separately metered services at no extra charge [4], some of these services being operated by Adam directly, examples including: a gaming community - GamingSA, which operates a range of servers for various games; and file servers - FileArena, which hosts a large file repository containing (but not limited to) games, Linux distributions and a Tucows Mirror.
[edit] References
- ^ Tredrea, Alexandra (2008-01-02). "Clocking up the hours.". The Advertiser, South Australia. http://www.adam.com.au/nImages/clockingupthehours.pdf.
- ^ Changarathil, Valerina (2008-01-05). "Censoring web access too hard.". The Advertiser, South Australia. http://www.adam.com.au/nImages/censoringwebaccess.pdf.
- ^ Austin, Nigel (2007-06-02). "Internet business online for growth". The Advertiser, South Australia. http://www.edugeek.net.au/imgdump/02jun2007.png.
- ^ http://www.adam.com.au/pipe/pipe.php#localData
[edit] External links
- Official website
- GamingSA Gaming Network
- FileArena
- Adam forum on Whirlpool
- Adam Internet listing on Broadband Choice
