Mindspring
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| Public | |
| Traded as | MSPG |
| Industry | Internet |
| Fate | Merged with Earthlink |
| Successor | EarthLink |
| Founder | Charles Brewer (businessman) |
| Headquarters | Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
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Key people
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Mike McQuary |
| Services | Internet service |
MindSpring Enterprise was a major Internet service provider headquartered in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia. Founded on February 1, 1994, MindSpring merged with EarthLink on February 4, 2000, with the company retaining the EarthLink name. In 2006, the MindSpring brand was relaunched by EarthLink as a free VoIP service, but was discontinued in early 2008.
MindSpring was founded on February 1, 1994, by Charles Brewer in Atlanta, Georgia. It had only non-paying customers for four months and eight modems. It initially shared facilities and technical staff with Internet Atlanta, another local ISP. In June 1994 it opened for business and took on its first paying customers. By late 1994, MindSpring had obtained investment funding from ITC Holding Company and moved into offices at Georgia Tech's Advanced Technology Development Center. It established its first point of presence outside Atlanta in September 1995, and went public on NASDAQ in March 1996 with the ticker symbol MSPG.
MindSpring grew quickly by acquiring other companies. Along the way, it acquired the ISP business of Nando.net in North Carolina, although Nando continued as an online news website. In September 1996 it acquired PSINet retail subscribers. In February 1998 it acquired Internet Direct, Inc. and took over its call center in Phoenix, Arizona. That October it acquired SpryNet and its offices in Seattle, Washington. It also acquired many smaller "mom and pop" ISPs along the way.
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