Beginning with landmark achievements in the 1980s and 1990s, CGNET has become one of the world's most well-known email providers in the international nonprofit community.
Founded in 1983 by Georg Lindsey, CGNET built some of the earliest international email networks, providing custom email services over the Dialcom network in 1984 and later moved to the Internet.
While individuals could use email services on some value-added carriers, they had not been configured to serve organizations.
[1] In the 1990s, it performed a similar feat by providing its customers with an early version of Voice over IP, which did not use the VoIP protocols but made it possible to transmit voice over IP networks using statistical multiplexing.
[2] CGNET's international experience includes several times when it has relocated clients' facilities or rerouted their email because their offices have been caught in the middle of armed rebellions or similar disorders.