• io.com sold

    From Dreamer@VERT/SETXBBS to All on Wed Jun 1 12:08:27 2011
    This is interesting:

    A Piece of Internet History Lost: IO.com Sold, Services To Shut Down
    Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 01, @03:07AM
    from the fond-memories dept.
    An anonymous reader writes "The former Illuminati Online domain, IO.com, has been sold, and all existing customers will lose all services associated with the domain. A 1990 Secret Service raid on Steve Jackson Games, then owner of the Illuminati Online BBS and later the IO.com domain led to the creation of the EFF and was an important milestone in the fight for online rights. While the domain has been sold in the past, the services offered to customers always remained unchanged. However, this most recent sale, to an unnamed party, will result in all services being dropped on July 1, and people will lose email addresses, web pages, and shell accounts that many have had for 15+ years."

    source: http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/06/01/0219211/A-Piece-of-Internet-History-Lo st-IOcom-Sold-Services-To-Shut-Down


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