List of United Kingdom ISPs by age

The following is a history of UK Internet service providers (ISPs) in order of the date they started trading.

United Kingdom ISPs by age

 * 1) 1985-6 GreenNet
 * 2) 1990 Pipex
 * 3) 1992-01-28 GEN (Est 1989, ISP in 1992)
 * 4) 1992-06-01 Demon Internet
 * 5) 1992 ExNet Initially as 'HelpEx' service
 * 6) 1993 EUnet GB
 * 7) 1993 Dungeon Network Systems - Rebranded as Flexnet in 1996
 * 8) 1993 Pavilion (Sold to Easynet from 1 January 2001, but e-mail addresses remain extant under the pavilion.net domain)
 * 9) 1994-10-13 Zetnet
 * 10) 1994 Easynet
 * 11) 1994 U-NET
 * 12) 1995 Mailbox Internet
 * 13) 1995 Netdirect (NDO, now part of Namesco)
 * 14) 1995 Internet Central
 * 15) 1995 Anglianet
 * 16) 1995 Power Internet Ltd (Powernet), now part of the Timico Technology Group
 * 17) 1995 Unipalm-Pipex
 * 18) 1995 Zen Internet
 * 19) 1996 Lumison
 * 20) 1996 Simwood
 * 21) 1996 Claranet
 * 22) 1996-11 Entanet
 * 23) 1997 Force 9
 * 24) 1998 Larknet
 * 25) 1998 Freecom
 * 26) 1998 Elite Limited
 * 27) 1998 Freeserve