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'''Richard (Rick) Adams''' was an Internet pioneer and the founder of UUNET, which, in the mid and late 1990s, was the world's largest Internet Service Provider (ISP).
'''Richard''' ('''Rick''') '''Adams''' is the founder of UUNET and the founder of [[ISC|Internet Systems Consortium]]. <ref>[http://ecommerce.hostip.info/pages/2/Adams-Richard-L.html About Rick Adams]</ref>
 
==Professional Achievements==
Rick Adams helped make the Internet widely accessible by implementing the first Serial Line IP (SLIP), and founding UUNET Communication Services, which became the world's largest [[ISP|Internet Service Provider]] in the 1990s.
In 1982 he was the first individual to send an e-mail link to a machine at the Center for Seismic Studies in Northern Virginia. He was also in charge of B News, the most popular Usenet News transport from that time. <ref>[http://ecommerce.hostip.info/pages/2/Adams-Richard-L.html Adams' Professional Achievements]</ref>
Mr. Adams founded[[ISC|Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.]] with other two professionals: [[Carl Malamud]] and [[Paul Vixie]], using funding obtained from UUNET activity.
 
==History==
Adams founded UUNET Communications Service as a nonprofit telecommunications company with the main purpose to reduce the cost of mail and Usenet traffic sent by UUCP, especially for rural America.
UUNET quickly became the official gateway between North America and Europe and the connection between UUCP mail and Internet email. <ref>[http://www.facebook.com/pages/UUNET/108077662546227 The History of UUNET]</ref>
 
UUNET Technology, the first [[ISP]] in the US, was founded by Adams. The company was built by acquiring assets from UUNET Communication services, and thus the latter received a share of the profits. UUNET Technology became a successful company and was sold in 1995 to MFS (Metropolitan Fiber Systems), though in 1996 it was acquired by [[Worldcom]].<ref>[http://ecommerce.hostip.info/pages/2/Adams-Richard-L.html The acquisition of UUNET]</ref>
 
Rick left UUNET in 1994 and the company was taken over by [[John Sidgmore]].
After UUNET, Rick became a partner in other businesses, such as a restaurant in Virginia.
He notably made a donation in 1996, of one million US dollars, to the James Randi Educational Foundation, which was to be used for the paranormal Million Dollar Challenge.


Adams was responsible for the first widely available Serial Line IP (SLIP) implementation and founding UUNET, thereby making the Internet widely accessible. In 1982 he ran the first international UUCP e-mail link at the machine seismo (owned by the Center for Seismic Studies in Northern Virginia), which evolved into the first (UUCP-based) UUNET. He maintained B News (at that time the most popular Usenet News transport).
==Rick Adams and ICANN==
Among other notable collaborations, ISC and ICANN also collaborated on the [[DNS]] "F" root server, which was the first one to be distributed using anycast.<ref>[http://does-not-exist.org/bucharest-protocols/msg00008.html DNS root server]</ref>


In 1996, he donated one million dollars U.S. to the James Randi Educational Foundation to be used as the basis for its paranormal Million Dollar Challenge.[1]
==Education==
He currently resides in Northern Virginia with his wife Donnalyn and their two sons.
Rick Adams holds a Master's degree in computer science from Purdue University. <ref>[http://ecommerce.hostip.info/pages/2/Adams-Richard-L.html Education]</ref>


Rick Adams founded a nonprofit telecommunications company, UUNET Communications Service, to reduce the cost of mail and Usenet traffic sent by UUCP, particularly for rural sites in America. (UUNET was founded with a $50,000 loan from the USENIX Association, which was subsequently repaid.) UUNET became an official gateway between UUCP mail and Internet email, as well as between North America and Europe. It hosted many related services, such as Internet FTP access for its UUCP clients and the comp.sources.unix archives.
==References==
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Adams spun out a for-profit company, UUNET Technologies, which was the first ISP in the United States. The for-profit company bought the assets of the nonprofit, repaying it with a share of the profits over the years. The nonprofit has spent that money for many UNIX-related charitable causes over the years, such as supporting the Internet Software Consortium. The for-profit ISP became a multi-billion-dollar company and made an initial public offering in 1995. It was acquired by MFS (Metropolitan Fiber Systems, a wide-area optical-networking company), in 1996, which was subsequently acquired by Worldcom, which rose to challenge the largest telecommunications companies in America.


Adams left UUNET after transitioning leadership of the company to John Sidgmore in 1994. After leaving UUNET, Rick pursued opportunities as a partner in other ventures, including Cello and the 2941 restaurant in Falls Church, Virginia.
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Richard (Rick) Adams is the founder of UUNET and the founder of Internet Systems Consortium. [1]

Professional Achievements

Rick Adams helped make the Internet widely accessible by implementing the first Serial Line IP (SLIP), and founding UUNET Communication Services, which became the world's largest Internet Service Provider in the 1990s. In 1982 he was the first individual to send an e-mail link to a machine at the Center for Seismic Studies in Northern Virginia. He was also in charge of B News, the most popular Usenet News transport from that time. [2] Mr. Adams foundedInternet Systems Consortium, Inc. with other two professionals: Carl Malamud and Paul Vixie, using funding obtained from UUNET activity.

History

Adams founded UUNET Communications Service as a nonprofit telecommunications company with the main purpose to reduce the cost of mail and Usenet traffic sent by UUCP, especially for rural America. UUNET quickly became the official gateway between North America and Europe and the connection between UUCP mail and Internet email. [3]

UUNET Technology, the first ISP in the US, was founded by Adams. The company was built by acquiring assets from UUNET Communication services, and thus the latter received a share of the profits. UUNET Technology became a successful company and was sold in 1995 to MFS (Metropolitan Fiber Systems), though in 1996 it was acquired by Worldcom.[4]

Rick left UUNET in 1994 and the company was taken over by John Sidgmore. After UUNET, Rick became a partner in other businesses, such as a restaurant in Virginia. He notably made a donation in 1996, of one million US dollars, to the James Randi Educational Foundation, which was to be used for the paranormal Million Dollar Challenge.

Rick Adams and ICANN

Among other notable collaborations, ISC and ICANN also collaborated on the DNS "F" root server, which was the first one to be distributed using anycast.[5]

Education

Rick Adams holds a Master's degree in computer science from Purdue University. [6]

References

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