claim: Simon Cowell is a philanthropist for PETA.
evidence: The Internet Adapter -LRB- TIA -RRB- was software created by Cyberspace Development in 1993 to allow SLIP connections over a shell account .. SLIP. Serial Line Internet Protocol. shell account. shell account. PPP was added in 1995 , by which time the software was marketed and sold by Intermind of Seattle .. PPP. Point-to-Point Protocol. Intermind. Intermind. Seattle. Seattle. Shell accounts normally only allow the use of command line or text-based software , but by logging into a shell account and starting the TIA daemon , a user could then run any TCP / IP-based application , including standard GUI software such as the then-popular Netscape Navigator on their computer .. shell account. shell account. command line. Command line interface. daemon. Daemon ( computer software ). GUI. Graphical user interface. Netscape Navigator. Netscape. This was especially useful at the time because simple shell accounts were much less expensive than full SLIP / PPP accounts .. SLIP. Serial Line Internet Protocol. PPP. Point-to-Point Protocol. TIA was ported to a large number of unix or unix-like systems .. Usage of TIA declined rapidly with the advent of inexpensive PPP-enabled consumer-level dial-up access .. PPP. Point-to-Point Protocol. dial-up access. dial-up access. Also , competition from alternatives such as the free software Slirp cut its market share .. free software. free software. Slirp. Slirp. Cyberspace Development later sold its domain name and its owners went on to other projects while Intermind moved on to Push Technology and automated data delivery .. Intermind. Intermind. Push Technology. Push technology