Internet in a Box
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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 after licensing the Mosaic web browser, as well as starting up a commercial internet service provider (ISP) called InterServ.
The TCP/IP stack that was needed to connect a computer running Microsoft Windows to the internet in 1997. 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.
Much of the first edition was written by Sue Schofield, a pioneering internet writer.
[edit] External links
- Information Week article about the purchase of Spry, Inc.
- Internet writer Sue Schofield's web page.
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