UUNET, Project Y2K polo shirt
date: label: Date made
content: 1999
name: label: maker
content: WorldCom
label: maker
content: Promodoro
notes: label: Description
content: UUNET, founded in 1987 in Virginia, was the first commercial internet service provider (ISP). In the beginning they offered e-mail and news services. As the company grew, they provided a comprehensive range of internet service products. By the late 1990s they delivered internet services to the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. The UUNET brand has been retained through numerous acquisitions. Today UUNET is an internal brand of Verizon Business.
label: Description
content: This polo shirt is one of a collection of UUNET corporate logo sportswear produced to celebrate specific company and industry events. In 1999, the focus was on remediating potential Y2K issues. According to the donor, a senior executive, hundreds of millions of dollars were spent on the Y2K issue in the U.S. and at foreign subsidiaries. The shirt was produced by the UUNET Y2K team in Germany for their colleagues in the U.S. The clock-shaped design reads “We are OK with Y2K.”
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content: References: [last accessed 2019-09-23]
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content: https://www.verizon.com/about/sites/default/files/Verizon_History_0916.pdf
label: Description
content: https://www.company-histories.com/UUNET-Company-History.html
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Y2K
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Y2K
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Clint N. Smith
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.3114.06
label: nonaccession number
content: 2002.3114
label: catalog number
content: 2002.3114.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Shirt
label: Object Name
content: Dress Shirt
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: unfolded, flat: 86 cm x 113 cm; 33 27/32 in x 44 1/2 in