How can we talk about the history of the internet services providers without talk a little bit of the internet history?

Internet history stars around 1950’s and 1960’s with computer development, with a point to point communication between computers and terminals, after years of development we can say that the internet was transforming as we know around 1989 and in 1995 the internet was commercialized, and since this date the internet has had a deep impact on the humanity.

Internet service providers began to emerge in the late 80’s and 90’s, to commercialize the internet access to people because prior internet service providers the only way to have access to internet was through an account at a university or a government agency, in early 90’s internet began commercial, but only commercial users had the peering protocol. In 1994 four private companies build internet access for public; they could be considered the first internet service providers, and this access point was located in Washington, Chicago, San Francisco and New Jersey.

In 1995 was established the internet service providers association [ISPA], the first association for internet service providers, the objectives of this association were promoting competition, regulation and progress in the internet, and in this year around 160 access points to the internet was located around United States. Some of the most important internet service providers companies in 1995 were UUNET Technologies, Netcom Online Communications Services and PSINet, all of them with more of $39 million for annual revenue, and internet service providers market growing fast. For example in 1996 in some cities the 75 percent of residents had internet access for homes and business.

The number internet service providers increase dramatically, for example in 1996 around 1400 internet service providers, 3000 internet service providers in 1997, all in United States. With the development of telecommunications the internet service providers merged with telephone companies to bring service to small operations and small business, this merge began in early 1997. But with technology development internet service providers has had to improve their service and access point to internet, now wireless technology, bandwidth, mobile internet has made of the internet service providers market a hard field of competition for the different internet service provides companies around United States and the world, for example is estimated that more than 4000 internet service providers are located in USA, so is a competitive and hard market for the millions users of the interent.