NETCOM On-line Communication Services was an Internet service provider established in 1988 by Bob Rieger, an information systems engineer for Lockheed. Netcom started off in San Jose, California as a service to allow local students to access university networks off-campus. The original accounts were all dialup shell accounts on Xenix Intel 80386 Tandy PC's.

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