It was written independently by Steve Palmer in 1994, and more than a decade later, it is still the most popular way of accessing CIX.

Because the CIX operated at OSI layer 3, rather than OSI layer 2, and because it was not neutral, in the sense that it was operated by one of its participants rather than by all of them collectively, and it conducted lobbying activities supported by some of its participants and not by others, it would not today be considered an Internet exchange point.

The name and business focus of this group of companies was changed several times in the early 21st Century, being known as Nextra ( along with the acquired CIX & XTML ), Telenor Business Solutions ( still with CIX & XTML ) and finally reverting to ND Norsk Data once CIX & XTML had been resold to Pipex, reportedly for less than 10 % of the purchase price.

At the core of the service were many thousands of " conferences "-groups established by users to discuss particular topics, conceptually not unlike newsgroups but limited to CIX subscribers ( who sometimes describe themselves as ' Cixen ').

On 25 May 2011, CIX Online Ltd. was purchased by ICUK, an ISP, hosting and telecoms provider formed in November 2001 by an ex-employee of Compulink Information eXchange Ltd. ICUK in its press release has said it intends to grow and expand CIX Conferencing for new and existing users of both companies.

At first, users read the text-based ( ISO 8859-1 ) CIX messages online, but the UK's practice of charging per minute for telephone calls led to the development of off-line readers ( OLRs ).

Many other OLRs, written by CIX users, are also available for other operating systems, such as Nicola on the Amiga, and Polar for Psion PDAs.

After experiments with Prestel, he found an early British online community, CIX in the late 1980s, before direct connections to the internet were cheaply available outside academia, and this provided him with a new social and business life.

Year 109 ( CIX ) was a common year starting on Monday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

The first Internet exchange point was the Commercial Internet Exchange ( CIX ), formed by Alternet / UUNET ( now Verizon Business ), PSI, and CERFNET to exchange traffic without regard for whether the traffic complied with the acceptable use policy ( AUP ) of the NSFNet or ANS ' interconnection policy .< REF > Cybertelecom :: Internet History 1990s :: CIX </ REF > The CIX infrastructure consisted of a single router, managed by PSI, and was initially located in Santa Clara, California.

* Commercial Internet eXchange ( CIX )

CIX ( originally Compulink Information eXchange ) is an online based conferencing discussion system and was one of the earliest British Internet service providers.

In 1996 the Thornleys decided to expand CIX's services to include full 0845 dialup Internet access known as CIX Internet.

CIX was re-branded and merged with XTML of Manchester and Norsk Data of Newbury to form the UK arm of Nextra, the UK Internet subsidiary of Telenor.

* Commercial Internet eXchange ( CIX ) ( historical )

* Commercial Internet eXchange ( CIX )

The connection to other Internet service providers in Croatia has been implemented through the Croatian Internet Exchange Point – CIX.

* Commercial Internet eXchange ( CIX )

In 1991, PSINet, UUNET ( AlterNet ) and General Atomics ( CERFnet ) co-founded the Commercial Internet eXchange ( CIX ), a trade association of Internet Service Providers.

At the tail end of the dot com boom Telenor decided to try and expand the service by acquiring the ISP CIX and a hosting company in Manchester, XTML.

In a discussion of the need for a home-oriented dialup IP service on the CIX boards, Stanford suggested that if 200 people stepped up with a year's subscription, he would use Demon's infrastructure to create such a service.

These conferences still exist today although the CIX service has since expanded to include many other features.

In June 2002 the CIX service was outsourced by Telenor to Parkglobe, a company specially set up for the purpose by several long-term staffers and directors led by Graham Davies.

In 2004 CIX Conferencing was made accessible via a new service CIX Online by CIX Online Ltd, giving a Web interface as an alternative to the text interface.

It started on 1 June 1992 from an idea posted on CIX by Cliff Stanford of Demon Systems Ltd.

The first CIX OLR was TelePathy ( DOS-based ), which developed into the first WIndows OLR-WIgWam ( now an open-source project, under the name Virtual Access ).

Founded in 1983 by Frank and Sylvia Thornley, it began as a FidoNet bulletin board system, but in 1987 was relaunched commercially as CIX.

In its heyday, CIX was one of the UK's premier online locations for both technical and social interaction.

In 2000 CIX was sold to Telenor, a Norwegian telecommunications company.

In April 2007 the first prototype of the CIX Forums website was launched by CIX Online Ltd.

Paying CIX members were allowed to attach to the router directly or via leased lines.

The Liberal Democrats have used CIX as a conferencing system and a branded version of the Off line reader Ameol is provided for their use.

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