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Merik Voswinkel
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Merik Aart Voswinkel ( Utrecht, 1964) was the founder of the Dutch ISP knoware. Voswinkel is a self-educated inventor. He began his career as a technician, and learned the trade of business in practice. He had several businesses since 1984. Before, after lengthy investigation in 1993 knoware the experiment began, he had several in-house developed products, such as a parallel C-compiler for a Transputer in 1985. Knoware was one of the two first Dutch Internet providers for particullieren, the company started earlier than XS4ALL, however, that a more aggressive publicity campaign has entered the history books as the first in the Netherlands. knoware was certainly in the period off strong focus on Macintosh-users, yet the company could demand new accounts almost not. At that time, Internet users were using a modem dial. Voswinkel built service nodes in different cities, but the much larger company KPN was the parts supplier for the dial-up, and critical components were not supplied, so no investment could be recouped. KPN itself was in an advanced stage with the launch of a private ISP. Knoware proved interesting, but too small company can continue to sit opposite such major competitors, which in one blow "nationwide coverage" could offer. In 1997 the company was acquired, along with Voswinkel. Publications *Locating Internet Access in Europe, in 1992, Byte Magazine 
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