Telenet was a packet switched network which went into service in 1975. It was the first publicly available commercial packet-switched network service. The original founding company, Telenet Inc. was established by
Larry Roberts (former head of the
ARPANet), and Barry Wessler.
GTE acquired Telenet in 1979. It was later acquired by Sprint and called "Sprintnet." Sprint migrated customers off of Telenet to the modern-day
SprintLink IP network, one of many networks comprising today's
Internet. Telenet had its first offices in downtown Washington DC, then moved to McLean, Virginia. It was acquired by GTE while in McLean, and then moved offices in Reston, Virginia.
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