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Adams spun out a for-profit company, UUNET Technologies, which was the first ISP in the United States. The for-profit company bought the assets of the nonprofit, repaying it with a share of the profits over the years. The nonprofit has spent that money for many UNIX-related charitable causes over
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Association, which was subsequently repaid.) UUNET became an official gateway between UUCP mail and Internet email, as well as between North America and Europe. It hosted many related services, such as Internet FTP access for its UUCP clients and the comp.sources.unix archives.
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Adams founded a nonprofit telecommunications company, UUNET Communications Service, to reduce the cost of mail and Usenet traffic sent by UUCP, particularly for rural sites in America. (UUNET was founded with a $ 50,000 loan from the
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With a master's degree in computer science from Purdue University, Adams launched his career as a programmer for San Diego, California-based Science Application International Corp.
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with his wife Donnalyn Frey in 1994. He is a co-author of RFC 1036, the Standard for Interchange of USENET Messages.
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Tim O'Reilly discusses Rick Adams' creating UUNET as an open source-derived business. Includes some history.
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As of July 2012, he resided in Northern Virginia with his wife Donnalyn and their two sons.
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Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Academic Discussion Lists
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Adams left UUNET after transitioning leadership of the company to
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The SLIP protocol was superseded in the early 1990s, by the
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Adams was responsible for the first widely available
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In 1996, he donated one million dollars U.S. to the
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