The Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications (MCET) is a quasi-public agency created by an act of the Massachusetts legislature in 1982 to "establish and operate a statewide communications network to meet the educational and informational needs of business, industry, government, and the inhabitants of the commonwealth.
[3] Program guides for MET are held on microfilm by the State Library of Massachusetts[4] MCET created "Mass LearnPike", a satellite-based network funded in part by a Star Schools grant to "explore the use of distance-learning in K-12 schools."
[5][6] Mass LearnPike program listings were made available on the MCET web site beginning in 1997.
[7] In 1993, MCET was tasked by the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993 with leading the implementation of Mass Ed OnLine, to provide a statewide client-server network with full access to the internet.
The web site URL for MCET was https://web.archive.org/web/19970128033035/http://www.mcet.edu/ and existed as early as 1996, according to the copyright notice on the page archived in July 1997.