Connect Ireland

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An internet services company in Dublin, Ireland

Connect [1] began life as the TOPPSI ("To Operate by Providing People with Services and Information") BBS, a Fidonet node, in 1988 - one of the earliest in Europe [2].

Connect started offering dial-up services in 1995, and late 1997 began hosting the .tp ccTLD, in support of Nobel Prize winners José Ramos-Horta and Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo.

The .tp ccTLD service came under cyberwar attack in February, 1999. [3]

Pre-1994 list of Irish BBSs from TOPPSI [4]

Interview with Martin Maguire, 2000 [5]