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Digital carbon copying of books begins

By Davey Winder in Editorial

Posted in Blog, Internet on January 18, 2008 at 2:07 pm

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Many years ago, around 20 to be precise. Frank and Sylvia Thornley established what would become quite possibly the most important business with regard to the future of the Internet in the UK. The Compulink Information eXchange, better known as CIX, started life as a back bedroom BBS which allowed users to download public domain software sourced from trips to the US and chat with other techie types. It quickly went on to become the first commercial online conferencing system in the UK as well as the most influential, what with its membership of journalists and technological innovators. As for why it was so important in the whole Internet scheme of things, considering that for the first ten years of its life it was a dial-up proprietary and private system which hardly scraped the very boundaries of the emerging Internet, well that is simple: it was where UK consumer Internet service provision was born.

One CIXen as we like to call ourselves (and yes, I remain a loyal CIXen to this day) was a chap named Cliff Stanford. One of his claims to fame is as the founder of probably the first online auction system, which operated as a conference on Cix and predates eBay by many years. However, his main achievement and the one that he will surely be remembered for was as founder of Demon Internet, the very first consumer dial-up Internet Service Provider in the UK and one of the first in the world to successfully market an affordable service for your everyday punter. Demon started, funnily enough, on CIX. It was there that Cliff set up a conference called tenner-a-month with the simple aim of getting enough people to pledge to pay ten quid every month, with a year

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