[aklug] Re: Introduction...

I though that "Alaska Info Tech Library / ak.net" Had them beat by some
months.

I seem to remember dealing with John Blagg (ak.net was in the downstairs
of "Fibranz, Blagg ans Assoc") as part of putting together connectivity
for my first ISP startup at the same time that rumor had it that Lance
and Matt were just ordering hardware and phone lines.

Course their little start-up did a little better than the one I was
working for at the time (the financial types freaked out about WAN costs
and shut us down before opening).

On 10/31/14, 1:36 PM, Jim Gribbin wrote:
> IA, as far as I remember, was the 1st provider. I was of the
> understanding at the time the ATU was a partner from the start, I heard
> at the time that ATU owned 51%, but I'm not sure how accurate that
> number is.
>
> I think ATU bought them out completely when the sale to Pacific Telecom
> was being negotiated, before GCI got involved and tried to take ATU instead.
>
> IA's ghost is still around...There are still a lot of @alaska.net
> <http://alaska.net> email accounts around.
>
> On a side note, ran into Pat Wilke the other day. I guess he's living in
> the Butte area out of Palmer.
>
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 1:09 PM, <bryanm@acsalaska.net
> <mailto:bryanm@acsalaska.net>> wrote:
>
> On Fri, October 31, 2014 12:34 pm, Josh Reynolds wrote:
> > I'm trying to find info in internet alaska, but I'm not finding
> > anything. Did it get bought out or go under?
>
> Internet Alaska was an early (the first?) ISP in Anchorage. It was
> bought
> by ACS when they were formed to purchase ATU, the until-then publicly
> owned telephone utility. I'm sure someone will chime in with corrections
> or additional details.
>
> Welcome, Josh.
>
> --
> Bryan Medsker
> bryanm@acsalaska.net <mailto:bryanm@acsalaska.net>
>
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Received on Tue Nov 4 20:32:57 2014