[1] The bulletin board was set up in 1987 and was originally run by the user group but was co-opted by its sysop, Greg Hicks.
[citation needed] Adam Internet provided a range of separately metered services at no extra charge.
[4] Some of these services were operated by Adam directly, such as a gaming community (3FL, which operated a range of servers for various games), ABC iView, and file servers (FileArena, which hosted a large file repository including games, Linux distributions, streaming of various radio stations including local youth radio station Fresh 92.7, and a Tucows mirror).
[citation needed] In August 2012, Adam Internet announced that their managing director, Scott Hicks, would be leaving the company.
In December 2015, Adam Internet was disbanded, with services and existing customers being moved to iiNet.