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NETCOM On-Line Communication Services, Inc. was an Internet service provider headquartered in San Jose, California.〔Helm, Leslie. "(contact netcom )." Netcom. Retrieved on September 7, 2010.〕〔"(Netcom to Set Time Limits on Internet Use; Technology: The rule will apply to customers with current services. The firm offers higher-priced plans with an access guarantee. )" ''Los Angeles Times''. March 25, 1997. Part D Financial Desk Start Page 1. Retrieved on September 7, 2010. "Charting a new direction for money-losing Internet service providers, San Jose- based Netcom On-Line Communications Services..."〕 ==Early history== It was established in 1988 by Bob Rieger, an information systems engineer for Lockheed and Bill Gitow of System V. Netcom started off in San Jose, California as a service to allow local students to access university networks off-campus. The original accounts were all dialup shell accounts on Intel 80386 Tandy PCs running Xenix, with email addresses in the format of user@netcom.com. Netcom soon served 95% of the San Francisco Bay Area. When first launched, Rieger was the only system administrator for the company. Users would call him early in the morning to fix Internet access issues until he hired night staff. In 1992, the company was incorporated. As the World Wide Web became more popular, and users were looking for an easy way to surf the Web, Netcom released a Windows 3.1 based program called NetCruiser (originally it was to be called Internet Xpress, but there were legal issues with calling it by that name, so it was changed in the latter part of development - although the email addresses were still kept user@ix.netcom.com). The NetCruiser service became very popular and made Netcom one of the leading Internet service providers by the mid-1990s. Netcom also had business T1, Frame Relay, UUCP, and dedicated dialup services. In February 1995, Rieger turned the presidency of Netcom over to David W. Garrison, formerly of SkyTel. Under his direction, the company ventured into the business services market with web hosting and high-speed business connectivity products.〔http://www.thefreelibrary.com/David+Garrison,+CEO+of+NETCOM,+joins+Traveling+Software's+board+of...-a018490653〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Netcom (United States)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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