Internet in a Box

Internet in a Box (IBox) was one of the first commercially available Internet connection software packages available for sale to the public. It included everything needed to connect to the internet in 1994. Spry, Inc. produced the software after licensing the Mosaic web browser, as well as starting up a commercial internet service provider (ISP) called InterServ.

The IBox software included the Winsock and TCP/IP stack that was needed to enable Microsoft Windows to get online. This was the beginning of the internet for the general public, since only government and college students generally had access to the network of computers called the Internet.

Much of the first edition was written by Sue Schofield, a pioneering internet writer.

pry, Inc.

Spry, Inc. was a small software company headed up by David Pool in Seattle, WA. In 1995 CompuServe bought Spry, Inc. for $100 Million in cash and stock of H&R Block (the parent company of CompuServe).

External links

* [http://www.informationweek.com/520/20iucom.htm Information Week article] about the purchase of Spry, Inc.
* [http://www.sueschofield.co.uk Internet writer Sue Schofield's web page.]