XS4ALL (pronounced "access for all") is the second-oldest ISP in the Netherlands, after NLnet (But xs4all was the first company offering internet for individuals). Based in Amsterdam, it offers dial-up access as well as ADSL. The company is known for its willingness to take on controversial issues; has taken spammers to court, making it the target for many Internet vandals, and fought other courtroom battles, such as Scientology vs. the Internet. An Internet service provider (ISP) is a business or organization that offers users access to the Internet and related services. ... NLnet is the oldest Internet service provider in the Netherlands. ... Amsterdam Location Country The Netherlands Province North Holland Population 739,295 (1 January 2005) Coordinates 4°54E - 52°22N Website www. ... 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 node, a dialup server type such as the PPP and TCP/IP protocols to establish a modem-to-modem link, which is then... Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) is a form of DSL, a data communications technology that enables faster data transmission over copper telephone lines than a conventional modem can provide. ... A KMail folder full of spam emails collected over a few days. ... Scientology versus the Internet is the colloquial term for a long-running online dispute between the Church of Scientology and a number of the Churchs online critics. ...

XS4ALL was established in Amsterdam in 1994 by Felipe Rodriquez, Rop Gonggrijp, Paul Jongsma and Cor Bosman. It grew out of the Hacktic Network, a UUCP network, and Utopia, a hacker BBS. Hacktic Network was started by the contributors to Hack-Tic, an underground hackers' magazine. Hacktic subsequently evolved into XS4ALL, the first public Unix system in the Netherlands. XS4ALL quickly grew into a large full-service ISP. The provider service separated from the hacker organization and soon after became independent. Amsterdam Location Country The Netherlands Province North Holland Population 739,295 (1 January 2005) Coordinates 4°54E - 52°22N Website www. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... UUCP stands for Unix to Unix CoPy, and is a computer program and protocol allowing remote execution of commands and transfer of files, email and netnews between Unix computers not connected to the Internet proper. ... A wide variety of systems of interconnected components are called networks. ... Hacker is a term used to describe people in computers, and has multiple meanings. ... A bulletin board system or BBS is a computer system running software that allows users to dial into the system over a phone line and, using a terminal program, perform functions such as downloading software and data, uploading data, playing games, reading news, and exchanging messages with other users. ... Hack-Tic was a Dutch hacker magazine published between 1989 and 1993. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Unix-like. ...

On January 15, 1994, De Digitale Stad ("The Digital City") opened, the result of a joint venture by De Balie, the Amsterdam cultural center, and XS4ALL. DDS was a Free-Net, a free system open to the public. The aim of DDS was to bring politics and citizens together in an online community. January 15 is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... A free-net is a computer system which provides public access to a large number of resources. ...

XS4ALL initiated the Dutch Internet Industry Association (NLIP) in 1995. Together with a large number of other Internet providers, the association was created with Felipe Rodriquez, then the director of XS4ALL, as its chairman until 1997. As one of the leading organizations within NLIP, XS4ALL has always had a strong voice against censorship regulation and against the erosion of privacy. 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In December 1996, XS4ALL put the Belgrade radio station B92 online using steaming audio technology in response to the jamming of its broadcasts by the regime of Slobodan Milošević. XS4ALL installed a leased line to the radio station in response to a request from Adrienne van Heteren, a Dutch citizen who went to Belgrade to set up various cultural activities. After XS4ALL had launched the online broadcast of Radio B92, its signal was picked up by the Voice of America and transmitted back into Serbia. December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Belgrade (Serbian, Београд, Beograd   listen?), is the capital of Serbia since 1404, Serbia and Montenegro (2003–Present) and Yugoslavia (1918–2003). ... B92 (Б92) is a radio and television station in Belgrade, Serbia. ... Slobodan MiloÅ¡ević Slobodan MiloÅ¡ević   listen? (Serbian: Слободан Милошевић, pronounced ; born 20 August 1941) is a former President of Serbia and of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as well as leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia. ... The Voice of America (VOA) is the official broadcasting service of the United States government. ...

In September 1996, members of the German Internet Content Task Force (ICTF) blocked XS4ALL for about a month because one of its subscribers had put an issue of Radikal Magazine on his homepage. Radikal is illegal in Germany, and to prevent its publication the German Bundesanwaltschaft ordered commercial ISPs in Germany to block its website. They ended up blocking the entire XS4ALL site, which at the time had about 6,000 personal and commercial homepages. XS4ALL insisted that the case to be settled by the courts, because it did not want to infringe on its customers' rights of free expression; however, the requests to follow traditional legal paths where ignored by the German ICTF. XS4ALL then implemented several technologies to sabotage the censorship attempt, such as automatically rotating the IP address of its website. The ICTF ended up censoring all IP traffic to the XS4ALL domain, including e-mail. After a couple of weeks this became untenable; a global protest against the censorship emerged, and a global network of mirror sites was created by the online community. The ICTF abandoned its efforts after several weeks. September is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with 30 days. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... The front page of the English Wikipedia website. ...

On April 11, 1997, one of the biggest German ISPs, the DFN, a university network in Germany, started an IP-filtering blockade against XS4ALL. Many protest letters were sent, mirrors were once again set up around the world, and the complete issue of radikal 154 was posted in the newsgroup de.soc.zensur. As a result, the blockade only lasted a few days. The founders of XS4ALL were interrogated as suspects of publication of terrorist propaganda, but no legal actions were initiated against them. April 11 is the 101st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (102nd in leap years). ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... DFN = Dual Flat No Lead, a style of Integrated Circuit package that has no pins or wires but uses contact pads instead. ... Internet protocol may refer to: The Internet_Protocol, a data-oriented protocol used for communicating data across a packet-switched internetwork. ...

In December 1998, XS4ALL was sold to the Dutch telephone company KPN, but it has nonetheless kept its unique character and identity. It currently has about 250,000 subscribers. Royal KPN NV (Koninklijke KPN NV) (NYSE: KPN), often abbreviated KPN, is a Dutch telecommunications company. ...

External links

• XS4ALL homepage
• The history of XS4ALL