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  1. Spry, Inc.

  2. References

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{{Other uses|Internet in a Box (disambiguation)}}IBox (Internet in a Box) was one of the first commercially available Internet connection software packages available for sale to the public. O'Reilly & Associates (now O'Reilly Media) created and produced the package, in collaboration with Spry, Inc. Spry, Inc. also started up a commercial Internet service provider (ISP) called InterServ.[1][2]

The IBox software included the Winsock program and TCP/IP stack that were needed to connect a computer running Microsoft Windows to the Internet in 1994.[3] The IBox package also included a licensed copy of the NCSA Mosaic web browser called AIR Mosaic,[4][5] AIR Mail (an email client), AIR News (an NNTP news client), AIR Telnet, AIR Gopher, and an FTP Network File Manager.

Combined with InterServ's dial-up access, Internet in a Box provided a complete solution for members of the general public to access the Internet, a network previously available almost exclusively to government and collegiate users, or to the public only indirectly through e-mail gateways provided by hosted systems such as BBSes and CompuServe. The inclusion of a web browser further gave access to the then-nascent World Wide Web.

The pioneering Internet book from O'Reilly, Ed Krol's 'Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog' (US-1993) was included in the US product. The European edition of the product also included Sue Schofield's 'UK Internet Book' (UK 1994).

Spry, Inc.

Spry, Inc. was a small software company headed up by David Pool in Seattle, Washington. Spry was the first company licensing the Mosaic Web browser source code.[6] In 1995 CompuServe bought Spry, Inc. for $100 million in cash and stock of H&R Block (the parent company of CompuServe).

References

1. ^{{cite journal | last = Goldberg | first = Steven | title = Internet access? It's in the box | journal = Network World | volume = 11 | issue = 43 | pages =43–44 | publisher = IDG Network World | date = October 24, 1994 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=lBcEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA43| issn = 0887-7661}}
2. ^{{cite magazine | last = Peschel | first = Joe | title = Spry's Internet In A Box package brings the Iway on-ramp to your computer |magazine= InfoWorld | volume = 16 | issue = 45 | page =118 | publisher = InfoWorld Media Group | location = San Mateo, CA | date = November 7, 1994 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ejgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA118 | issn = 0199-6649 }}
3. ^{{cite web|last=Stewart|first=Bill |title=Web Browser History|url=http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_browse.htm|accessdate=16 August 2010}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ericsink.com/Browser_Wars.html|title=Memoirs From the Browser Wars|date=15 April 2003|accessdate=16 February 2011|first=Eric|last=Sink}}
5. ^{{cite web|last1=Cockburn|publisher=CiteSeerX|first1=Andy|title=Which Way Now? Analysing and Easing Inadequacies in WWW Navigation|citeseerx = 10.1.1.25.8504|accessdate=20 November 2010|first2=Steve|last2=Jones|date=6 December 2000}}
6. ^{{cite book|last1=December|first1=John|year=1994|last2=Randall|first2=Neil|title=World Wide Web Unleashed|publisher=Sams Publishing|isbn=0-672-30617-4}}

External links

  • Information Week article about the purchase of Spry, Inc.
  • [https://sites.google.com/site/suescho/ Internet writer Sue Schofield's Web page.]
{{Timeline of web browsers|1990s}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Internet In A Box}}

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