WorldWide Access, known as WWA, was an Internet Service Provider based in Chicago, Illinois.
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10 Facts About WorldWide Access
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WorldWide Access was the service name of the company, which was called Computing Engineers, Inc.
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WorldWide Access operated from 1993 until 1998, when it was acquired by Verio.
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WorldWide Access was founded in Lily Moy's house in Chicago's Jefferson Park neighborhood, and funded by Lily Moy's contribution of computers, space, and expertise in creating MagicServer with Greg, and Dave.
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WorldWide Access offered tech support for Macintosh computers, which was somewhat of a rarity at the time.
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WorldWide Access focused its sales efforts on signup up corporate clients but the company served thousands of residential customers.
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WorldWide Access focused heavily on customer service excellence and was considered to be one of the better ISP operations in the Chicago area.
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WorldWide Access later added Jeff Gerhardt as its Director of Business Development.
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WorldWide Access was one of the first ISPs to choose MFS for this rather than using the ILEC, Ameritech's, competing product, the Ameritech Virtual Network.
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WorldWide Access was ultimately only one of several Chicago-based small Internet providers, which, in the end, were nearly all swallowed up by larger providers.
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