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The following is a history of UK Internet service providers (ISPs) in order of the date they started trading.

United Kingdom ISPs by age

  1. 1985-6 GreenNet
  2. 1990 Pipex
  3. 1992-01-28 GEN (Est 1989, ISP in 1992)
  4. 1992-06-01 Demon Internet
  5. 1992 ExNet Initially as 'HelpEx' service
  6. 1993 EUnet GB
  7. 1992 NTL
  8. 1993 Dungeon Network Systems - Rebranded as Flexnet in 1996
  9. 1993 Pavilion (Sold to Easynet from 1 January 2001, but e-mail addresses remain extant under the pavilion.net domain)
  10. 1994-10-13 Zetnet
  11. 1994 Easynet
  12. 1994 U-NET
  13. 1995 Mailbox Internet
  14. 1995 Netdirect (NDO, now part of Namesco)
  15. 1995 Internet Central
  16. 1995 Anglianet
  17. 1995 Power Internet Ltd (Powernet), now part of the Timico Technology Group
  18. 1995 Unipalm-Pipex
  19. 1995 Zen Internet
  20. 1996 Lumison
  21. 1996 Simwood
  22. 1996 Claranet
  23. 1996-11 Entanet
  24. 1997 Force 9
  25. 1998 Larknet
  26. 1998 Freecom
  27. 1998 Elite Limited
  28. 1998 Freeserve

See also

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