Delphi was an early US Internet service provider that started as a nationwide dialup service in 1983, and in 1992 became the first national commercial service to offer access to the Internet. Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about: United States Wikinews has news related to this article: United States United States government CIA World Factbook Entry for United States House. ... An Internet service provider (ISP) is a business or organization that offers users access to the Internet and related services. ... Dial-up access is an inexpensive but relatively slow form of internet access in which the client uses a modem to dial the internet service providers (ISP) node, a dialup server type such as the Point-to-Point Protocol and TCP/IP protocols to establish a modem-to-modem... Jump to: navigation, search 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1992 was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...

Delphi logo from 1997

Delphi, like ISPs GEnie and CompuServe, was never able to cope with the switch to graphic interface adopted by AOL, which swept past it in the late 1980s. It exists today only as Delphi Forums with access through the Internet. Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Delphi_logo_1997. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Delphi_logo_1997. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Seal of Solomon is said to have given Sulayman power over the jinn. ... CompuServe, (CompuServe Information Services, or CIS for short), was the first major commercial online service in the US, dominating the field during the 1980s and remaining a major player through the mid-1990s when it was sidelined by the rise of GUI-based services such as America Online (AOL). ... America Online, or AOL for short, is a U.S.-based online service provider and Internet service provider that is owned by Time Warner. ...

History

The company that became Delphi was founded by Wes Kussmaul as Kussmaul Encyclopedia in 1982, featured ASCII-based encyclopedia, email, and a primitive chat. Newswires, bulletin boards and better chat were added in early 1982. Jump to: navigation, search There are 95 printable ASCII characters, numbered 32 to 126. ...

In March 15, 1983, the Delphi name was first used by General Videotex Corporation. Forums were text-based, and accessed via Telenet, Sprintnet, Tymnet, and Datapac (Canada). Telenet is the largest provider of broadband cable services in Belgium. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

Delphi partnered with ASCII Corp. of Japan to open online services in 1991.

Delphi provided national consumer access to the internet in 1992 Features included Email (July 1992), FTP, Telnet, Usenet, text-based web access (November 1992), MUDs, Finger protocol, Gopher protocol. E-mail, or email, is short for electronic mail and is a method of composing, sending, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. ... This page is about the File Transfer Protocol, a computer protocol. ... Telnet is a network protocol used on the Internet or local area network LAN connections. ... Usenet is a distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a general purpose UUCP network of the same name. ... Jump to: navigation, search In computer gaming, a MUD (multi-user dungeon, dimension, or sometimes domain) is a multi-player computer game that combines elements of role-playing games, hack and slash style computer games, and social instant messaging chat rooms. ... The finger protocol is a simple network protocol based on RFC 1288 (The Finger User Information Protocol). ... Gopher is a distributed document search and retrieval network protocol designed for the Internet. ...

In 1993 Delphi was sold to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. It had 125,000 text based customers in 1995, but by 1996 were down to were down to less than 5,000 by some accounts, 50,000 by others. Jump to: navigation, search Rupert Murdoch Keith Rupert Murdoch (born on March 11, 1931), is an Australian-born American media proprietor who is the majority shareholder and managing director of News Corporation, one of the worlds largest and most influential media corporations. ... News Corporation (abbreviated to News Corp) NYSE: NWS is one of the worlds largest media conglomerates. ...

In 1996, NewsCorp sold Delphi Internet to a group of investors that included some of its original principles. It launched a free, ad-supported managed-content website with associated message boards and chatrooms, under the management of a team led by Bill Louden, who had headed GEnie during its heyday. For a period of time, both text-based and web-based community services were available. After a year as a managed content site, Delphi reinvented itself as a community-driven service that allowed anyone to create an online community. Jump to: navigation, search The Seal of Solomon is said to have given Sulayman power over the jinn. ...

Prospero Technologies was formed in January 2000 as the merger of Delphi Forums and Wellengaged. Webpages for forums are discontinued.

In 2001, Rob Brazell purchased Delphi Forums, merged it with eHow and Idea Exchange, and formed Blue Frogg Enterprises. The Delphi.com domain was sold to Delphi Corporation. Prospero partnered with Inforonics. Jump to: navigation, search Delphi logo from 2005 Delphi (NASDAQ: DPHIQ) is an automotive parts company headquartered in Troy, Michigan. ...

In 2002, Prospero reacquired Delphi Forums, joining it with Talk City to form Delphi Forums LLC.

Source

• Delphi Forums History Project

External links

• Delphi Forums
• Prospero Technologies