Unipalm Ltd was founded as a software reseller in Cambridge in 1986 by Peter Dawe, later forming PIPEX in 1990, as the first commercial ISP in the UK.
In its very early days, their office was in Hardwick, Cambridgeshire (UK) [1][2] In March 1994 Unipalm Group Plc floated on the London Stock Exchange, the purpose of the flotation was to expand the growth of The Public I.P.
This re-established Unipalm as a separate company, moving location to offices in Newmarket, Suffolk.
In May 2000, German based company Computerlinks AG acquired 100% of the shares of Unipalm.
[6] The company maintained a high level of independence until 2003 when the Unipalm name was dropped and began trading as Computerlinks UK.