# Sublink Network

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'''Sublink Network''' was a non-profit association founded in [Italy](/source/Italy) in 1989 to allow cost-sharing access to the [Internet](/source/Internet). Sublink Network was registered with the '''sublink.org''' domain (this domain now belongs to one of the founders). Sublink Network had its own sublink.* newsgroup hierarchy and a gateway with the Italian branch of [FidoNet](/source/FidoNet).

==History==
Its founders on September 25, 1989 were: Paolo Ventafridda (president), Paolo Pennisi, Marco Sacchi, Carlo Vellano, Davide Yachaya and Mauro Mozzarelli. The association was based in Milan, Italy.
The association for a few years had a [UUCP](/source/UUCP) [dialup](/source/dialup) link to [Rutgers university](/source/Rutgers_university), but later obtained free support from [Olivetti](/source/Olivetti) who provided [Internet mail](/source/Internet_mail) and [newsgroups](/source/newsgroups) (now named "groups" by google) feed.  At its peak in 1991-1995 Sublink Network counted around one hundred nodes distributed across the Italian territory.

Sublink was the very first public (non-academic) internet email and newsgroup network in Italy, with very low access fees (around $100 a year), fast backbone modems running at 19200 [bit/s](/source/Bit_rate) (the average modem was 2400 bit/s at that time), and fully registered to the NIC. When after 1997, low cost [PPP](/source/Point-to-Point_Protocol) commercial access to the Internet started to become available, interest for UUCP cost-share Internet feeds started to decline and the association was naturally dissolved.

==References==
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UUCP network map for the early internet in Italy <ref>{{cite web|url=https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/reference/net-directory/maps/uucp.bak/u.eur.ita.1|title=u.eur.ita.1; changes to: maps@i2ack.sublink.org}}</ref>
Early public networking analysis by the Italian National Research Center, 1993 (pdf, Italian)<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.tdmagazine.itd.cnr.it/files/pdfarticles/PDF02/Trentin.pdf|doi = 10.17471/2499-4324/770|year = 1993|volume = 1|issue = 2|last1 = Trentin|first1 = Guglielmo|title = La tecnologia della comunicazione via rete|journal = Italian Journal of Educational Technology}}</ref>

Category:Internet access
Category:Non-profit organisations based in Italy
Category:Organizations established in 1989

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