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The staff of Demon Systems Ltd., an established software house, started Demon Internet on 1992-06-01 and it was the first system in the United Kingdom to offer low cost full Internet access. It was started with the support of about 100 founder members who discussed the idea on Compulink Information Exchange , and were brave enough to pay a year's subscription in advance. They aimed to have 200 members in the first year to cover costs, ignoring any time spent. After about two weeks they realised they needed nearer 400. By November 1993 they had over 2000 subscribers and by August 1994 they had about 11000 with 20% per month growth. All revenues have been reinvested in resources and expansion of service.
Demon link to Sprintlink in the United States making them totally independent. They peer with EUNet and PIPEX to ensure good connectivity in Great Britain as well as having links to the JANET / JIPS UK academic network. A direct line into the Department of Computing, Imperial College, London from their Central London Point of Presence (PoP) (styx.demon.co.uk) gives access to the biggest FTP and Archie site in Europe.
Demon provide local call access to a large proportion of the UK. The central London PoP provides leased line connections at a cheaper rate for those customers in the central 0171 area. Further lines and PoP s are being added continuously.
Subscribers get allocated an Internet Address and can choose a hostname within the demon.co.uk domain . They can have any number of e-mail address at that host.
In October 1994 Demon confirmed a large contract with the major telecommunications provider Energis . They will supply guaranteed bandwidth to Demon's 10Mb/s backbone from several cities and towns. Several PoP s will be phased out and replaced with others during 1995.
E-mail: internet@demon.net .
ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/ .
Home .
Usenet newsgroup: news:demon.announce .
Telephone: +44 (181) 349 0063.
Address: Demon Internet Ltd., 42 Hendon Lane, Finchley, London N3 1TT, UK.
(1994-11-08)