On Nov 30, 19:31, Fred N. van Kempen wrote: But you *could* -- that was my point. In 1992, Demon made that possible with dialup IP (not UUCP), and it grew very quickly, from an initial base of 200 users. At least one of my friends had an account back then -- I know, because I used it. And by 1994 when I started at York University, Demon Internet was well enough established that several students had dialup accounts, and other companies had followed Demon's lead and produced a very competitive market. CIX did it before that, though it was restricted, as you suggest. And I'm not sure when they moved from UUCP to whatever else they did. The company I worked for at the time had .co.uk accounts in 1989 or 1990 (but I don't know who the provider was). -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York