GeoNet (email host)

Unlike other "mailbox" systems at the time, GeoNet had a user-friendly command interface and made extensive use of distributed processing technology.

By the early 1990s, GeoNet systems had been established in Austria, France, Germany, Guatemala, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland, UK, USA and USSR.

In addition, Computer Access (originally Hackney Computer Access)* [see http://www.access-it.org.uk Archived 11 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine] created the Hackney HOST using the GeoNet technology, using this to tackle digital exclusion within East London and the Lea Valley, under the aegis of City Challenge funding.

The system in the USSR, MOS1, was established at the height of the "glasnost" period and relayed information about the attempted coup in 1991 to the Western media.

Geonet's last hostmaster—Kay-Michael Sonntag from Höxter—took over the website | geonet.de as well as their customer base on 21 December 2012 together with Arno Witt and founded the entrepreneurial community of the Web-Security-Hosting-Services already in October 2012.