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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''' was the founder of UUNET, which in the 1990s was the world's largest Internet Service Provider (ISP). <ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Adams_%28Internet_pioneer%29 About Rick Adams]</ref>


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).
==Professional Achievements==
Rick Adams was responsible for making Internet widely accessible through the implementation of the first Serial Line IP (SLIP) on a world-wide level and tne foundation of UUNET Communication Services.  
In 1982 he was the first to ran an e-mail link to a machine seismo 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Adams_%28Internet_pioneer%29 Adams' Professional Achievements]</ref>
He is also one of the founders of ISC or Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. next to Carl Malamud and Paul Vixie. ISC was developed with UUNET funding to develop and support a number of internet software reference implementations.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Systems_Consortium About ISC]</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]
==History==
He currently resides in Northern Virginia with his wife Donnalyn and their two sons.
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 by the rural sites in America. (The necessary money for the funding of UUNET were obtained through a $50,000 loan from the USENIX Association. The loan was later repaid.)
UUNET quickly bemcame 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>


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.
UUNET Technology, the first ISP in the US, was also build by Adams. The company was build by the acquisition of the assets of UUNET Communication services, the latter receiving a share of the profits. UUNET Technology, became a company worth billions of dollars and was sold in 1995 to MFS (Metropolitan Fiber Systems), in 1996 being acquired by Worldcom, a main competitor for the biggest telecommunication companies from America.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Adams_%28Internet_pioneer%29 The acquisition of UUNET]</ref>


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.
Rick left UUNET in 1994. The company was taken over by John Sidgmore. After UUNET, Rick became a partner in other businesses such as 2941 restaurant in Virginia.
Also, he donated in 1996, one million US dollars to James Randi Educational Foundation to be used for the paranormal Million Dollar Challenge.


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.
Currently, he is living with his family in Northern Virginia.
 
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Richard (Rick) Adams was the founder of UUNET, which in the 1990s was the world's largest Internet Service Provider (ISP). [1]

Professional Achievements[edit | edit source]

Rick Adams was responsible for making Internet widely accessible through the implementation of the first Serial Line IP (SLIP) on a world-wide level and tne foundation of UUNET Communication Services. In 1982 he was the first to ran an e-mail link to a machine seismo 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] He is also one of the founders of ISC or Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. next to Carl Malamud and Paul Vixie. ISC was developed with UUNET funding to develop and support a number of internet software reference implementations.[3]

History[edit | edit source]

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 by the rural sites in America. (The necessary money for the funding of UUNET were obtained through a $50,000 loan from the USENIX Association. The loan was later repaid.) UUNET quickly bemcame the official gateway between North America and Europe, and the connection between UUCP mail and Internet email. [4]

UUNET Technology, the first ISP in the US, was also build by Adams. The company was build by the acquisition of the assets of UUNET Communication services, the latter receiving a share of the profits. UUNET Technology, became a company worth billions of dollars and was sold in 1995 to MFS (Metropolitan Fiber Systems), in 1996 being acquired by Worldcom, a main competitor for the biggest telecommunication companies from America.[5]

Rick left UUNET in 1994. The company was taken over by John Sidgmore. After UUNET, Rick became a partner in other businesses such as 2941 restaurant in Virginia. Also, he donated in 1996, one million US dollars to James Randi Educational Foundation to be used for the paranormal Million Dollar Challenge.

Currently, he is living with his family in Northern Virginia.

References[edit | edit source]

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