Networking Organizations & Access Providers

• CIX: The Commercial Internet eXchange in USA.
• CompuServe: Biggest BBS in the world.
• DeNIC: The DeNIC is the German counterpart of the InterNIC.
• EUnet: The mother of all EUnet sites across Europe an adjacent countries; all in all 38, for now. (This became KPN/Quest in 1999.)
• InterNIC: The InterNIC is a collaborative project of three organizations which work together to offer the Internet community a full scope of network information services.
• MSN, The Microsoft Network
• MERIT: The former NSFNet coordinators.
• Pipeline: Internet for the rest of us.
• RIPE: Network Coordination Centre (NCC) is the organization to coordinate IP networking in Europe.
• UUnet: UUnet technologies; owners of AlterNet, and creators of the Microsoft Network (MSN), and AOL's network.
• Worldcom: The sucessors to UUNET.
• The Worl-Wide Web Consortium: promotes the Web by producing W3C is funded by industrial members but its products are freely available to all. The Consortium is run by MIT with INRIA acting as European host, in collaboration with CERN where the web originated.