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In the beginning..... there were a couple of BBSs. MCLink and Agora' (the Greek word for the piazza, where people gather). MCLink began with a few techies who worked at Technimedia which published one of Italy's first comuputer magazines. Agora' was sponsored by Italy's Radical Party, which promoted referndums which brought (among other things) abortion and divorce to Italy. Only universities and government agences had access to the World Wide Web until December 1, 1994. About this time Telecom, Italy's monopoly telephone company created TIN (Telecom Italia Net) to provide Internet access. Other companies were being formed, but until Tiscali offered free dialup access to Internet you had to pay. Telecom is no longer a monopoly, and ADSL lines are now being offered. Many of these providers are also portals, but are listed separately.
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Ciao * Italy
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- Ciao Web
Ciao Web is an ISP and portal financed in part by the Agnelli family, it offers free access to the Internet, 40 MB of space for your web, and 7 MB space in your mailbox. Forthose in Italy without Internet access, make a free phone call (800-632632) and they will send a free CD-Rom. http://www.ciaoweb.it
- Infinito
Infinito was brought to Italy by British Telecom. It offers access to Internet, an unlimited number of mail addresses, as well as 100 megabytes of web space. All for free.
- IOL - Italia On Line
IOL was one of the first providers offered by a big corporation (Olivetti). It therefore has a large (for Italy) online community of over 15,000 members. They also created on of the first search engines, Arianna
- Jumpy
Jumpy is the creation of Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset, presented in late 1999, a latecomer to the Italian web portal list. From Italy there's a toll-free number from Italy, 800-542121, call and they will send you a free CD-Rom. They provide access to 32,000 newsgroups. Jumpy also provides a service which tells surfers from Italy how much they are paying the phone company for their connection. Access the home page, select "costo delle telefonate", fill in your phone number, the day, hour of beginning and hour of end of the call, and Jumpy immediately calculates the cost.
- Kataweb
Kataweb is the outgrowth of Espresso Edit, which publishes the national Italian daily La Repubblica and L'Espresso magazine. It aspires to be one of the principal portals to Italy, and also has a search engine. You can send a free message to any mobile phone in
- MCLink
MCLink was a pioneer BBS in Italy, now provides ADSL and ISDN service mostly to businesses. The home page has links to many sites including a software library, and a mirror for Tucows in Italy.
- TIN Telecom Italia Net
Both a portal and Internet Service Provider, Telecom Italia Net provides a number of links to sites. They offer ISDN and ADSL service, but you have to buy your modem at a TIN store.
Wind
Wind was presented by the Italian electricity monopoly (ENEL) and offers free access to Internet from fixed and mobile phones. Unfortunately they want you to download Shockwave Flash before they will let you see their web.
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