NETZERO
Updated 04-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about NETZERO!
NetZero to launch free wireless broadband service: By PETER SVENSSON AP Technology Writer
TECHNOLOGY; NetZero Sues Juno Online in a Patent Dispute Over Advertising: NetZero Inc, a provider of free access to the Internet, sues one of its few remaining competitors, Juno Online Services Inc, accusing it of infringing a patent on the way such services display advertising (S)
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: NetZero is an Internet service provider based in Woodland Hills, los angeles, California . it is a subsidiary of United Online, which in turn is subsidiary of investment bank B. Riley Financial . netZer NetZero was the first company to invent real-time URL targeted advertising based on surfing patterns . the founders raised $60 million in venture capital in four separate equity financings . NetZero was the only ISP to be included in the out-of-box experience (OOBE) in 1999 . in 1999, netzero went public on the NASDAQ exchange with the symbol NZRO . NetZero sued them for infringing on a banner ad patent . after the dot-com bust in early 2000, netzero acquired its competitors . Netzero began charging access time over users who exceeded 40 hours were directed to the company’s “Platinum” service . netzero later lowered the threshold for their free service to 10 hours per month . in July 2005, NetZero introduced dial-up connections are subject to limits of 56k modems, so the service does not increase transmission speed . instead, the service prefetches HTML markup, JavaScript and other small files and compresses them a newer service, “NetZero DSL”, was released soon after . in 2012 the company said they still had about 750,000 dial-up subscribers . the company has since expanded the service across the nationwide Sprint 3 in 2013, it debuted NetZero DataShield, a personal virtual private network . it encrypts and protects users’ data when they connect to the Internet via any WiFi connection, including public WiFi access points