UUNET, Project Y2K polo shirt
Object Details
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- Promodoro
- Description
- UUNET, founded in 1987 in Virginia, was the first commercial internet service provider (ISP). In the beginning they offered e-mail and news services. As the company grew, they provided a comprehensive range of internet service products. By the late 1990s they delivered internet services to the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. The UUNET brand has been retained through numerous acquisitions. Today UUNET is an internal brand of Verizon Business.
- This polo shirt is one of a collection of UUNET corporate logo sportswear produced to celebrate specific company and industry events. In 1999, the focus was on remediating potential Y2K issues. According to the donor, a senior executive, hundreds of millions of dollars were spent on the Y2K issue in the U.S. and at foreign subsidiaries. The shirt was produced by the UUNET Y2K team in Germany for their colleagues in the U.S. The clock-shaped design reads “We are OK with Y2K.”
- References: [last accessed 2019-09-23]
- https://www.verizon.com/about/sites/default/files/Verizon_History_0916.pdf
- https://www.company-histories.com/UUNET-Company-History.html
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Clint N. Smith
- 1999
- ID Number
- 2002.3114.06
- nonaccession number
- 2002.3114
- catalog number
- 2002.3114.06
- Object Name
- Shirt
- Dress Shirt
- Measurements
- unfolded, flat: 86 cm x 113 cm; 33 27/32 in x 44 1/2 in
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- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- Y2K
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Y2K
- Record ID
- nmah_1246917
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-6857-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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