Richard L. Rick Adams, Jr. is an American Internet pioneer who is known as the founder of UUNET, which in the mid and late 1990s was the world's largest Internet service provider, and his fortune was estimated at 500 million dollars in 1997. He obtained a master's degree in computer science from Purdue University. He was responsible for the first widely available Serial Line IP implementation and for founding UUNET, which helped make the Internet widely accessible, and in 1982 he ran the first international UUCP e-mail link, known as Seismo, at the Center for Seismic Studies in Northern Virginia. He also maintained B News, at that time the most popular Usenet News transport.
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He is known as the founder of UUNET, which, in the mid and late 1990s, was the world's largest Internet service provider (ISP).
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He is known as the founder of UUNET, which, in the mid and late 1990s, was the world's largest Internet service provider (ISP).
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BSDI was founded by Rick Adams and members of the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley, including Keith Bostic, Kirk McKusick, Mike Karels, Bill Jolitz and Donn Seeley.
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