The World (internet Service Provider)
The World is an Internet service provider originally headquartered in Brookline, Massachusetts. It was the first dial-up service provider that offered direct access of the Internet to the general public, doing so since 1989. Prior to that time, Internet access had been strictly limited to academic and scientific researchers and to the military. Previous dial-up providers had only offered access to their own local BBS.
Many government and university installations blocked, threatened to block, or attempted to shut-down The World's Internet connection until Software Tool & Die was eventually granted permission by the National Science Foundation to provide public Internet access on "an experimental basis."
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