MindSpring Enterprise was a major Internet service provider which merged with EarthLink on February 4, 2000, with the company retaining the EarthLink name. In 2006, the MindSpring brand was relaunched by EarthLink as a free VoIP service, which was discontinued in early 2008.
MindSpring was founded in February 1994 by Charles Brewer in Atlanta, Georgia. It had only non-paying customers for four months and eight modems. It initially shared faciliti...
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MindSpring Enterprise was a major Internet service provider which merged with EarthLink on February 4, 2000, with the company retaining the EarthLink name. In 2006, the MindSpring brand was relaunched by EarthLink as a free VoIP service, which was discontinued in early 2008.
MindSpring was founded in February 1994 by Charles Brewer in Atlanta, Georgia. It had only non-paying customers for four months and eight modems. It initially shared facilities and technical staff with Internet Atlanta, another local ISP. In June 1994 it opened for business and took on its first paying customers. By late 1994, MindSpring had obtained investment funding from ITC Holding Company and moved into offices at Georgia Tech's Advanced Technology Development Center. It established its first point of presence outside Atlanta in September 1995, and went public on NASDAQ in March 1996 with the ticker symbol MSPG .
MindSpring grew quickly by acquiring other companies. Along the way, it acquired the ISP business...
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