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''A brief history'' <br>
'''Virgin Media''' plc is a company which provides fixed and mobile telephone, television and broadband internet services to businesses and consumers in the United Kingdom.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Media</ref> They are discontinuing their personal web space service on April 28, 2016.<ref name="shutdown"/>
Cable TV started its roll out in the 90's at various places in the UK under different local names. By the late 90's NTL and Telewest were merging all the smaller cable companies around to offer more services. Available at the time was dialup internet but eventually cable internet appeared. Both companies offered email/web and other online related services. More info on the respective wiki's.<br>
NTL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTL_Incorporated <br>
Telewest otherwise known as Blueyonder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telewest <br><br>
Virgin.net merged with NTL and Telewest before Virgin Media Purchased them.<br><br>


Now it's all under one (limited) national company. Virgin Media:<br>
== A brief history ==
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Media<br><br>
Cable TV started its roll out in the 90's at various places in the UK under different local names. By the late 90's NTL and Telewest were merging all the smaller cable companies around to offer more services. Available at the time was dialup internet but eventually cable internet appeared. Both companies offered email/web and other online related services. More info on the respective wiki's.


Since there has been several merges over the time, there's still various legacy websites still lingering about.<br><br>
*NTL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTL_Incorporated
*Telewest otherwise known as Blueyonder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telewest
 
Virgin.net merged with NTL and Telewest before Virgin Media Purchased them.
 
Now it's all under one (limited) national company. Virgin Media: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Media
 
Since there has been several merges over the time, there's still various legacy websites still lingering about.
 
Virgin Media is discontinuing their personal web space service on April 28, 2016.<ref name="shutdown">https://my.virginmedia.com/customer-news/articles/webspace-is-closing.html</ref>
 
== Retiring Personal Web Space ==
 
:"Sadly, from 28 April 2016, we’ll no longer be able to offer the Webspace service."<ref name="shutdown"/>


== Site structure ==
== Site structure ==
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== References ==
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Virgin Media
Virgin-media-logo-1.png
URL Virgin Media – Cable Broadband, Digital TV, Mobile & More[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]
Status Closing
Archiving status Upcoming...
Archiving type Unknown
IRC channel #virginsacrifice (on hackint)

Virgin Media plc is a company which provides fixed and mobile telephone, television and broadband internet services to businesses and consumers in the United Kingdom.[1] They are discontinuing their personal web space service on April 28, 2016.[2]

A brief history

Cable TV started its roll out in the 90's at various places in the UK under different local names. By the late 90's NTL and Telewest were merging all the smaller cable companies around to offer more services. Available at the time was dialup internet but eventually cable internet appeared. Both companies offered email/web and other online related services. More info on the respective wiki's.

Virgin.net merged with NTL and Telewest before Virgin Media Purchased them.

Now it's all under one (limited) national company. Virgin Media: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Media

Since there has been several merges over the time, there's still various legacy websites still lingering about.

Virgin Media is discontinuing their personal web space service on April 28, 2016.[2]

Retiring Personal Web Space

"Sadly, from 28 April 2016, we’ll no longer be able to offer the Webspace service."[2]

Site structure

Virgin Media: http://www.USERNAME.webspace.virginmedia.com/
Blueyonder: http://www.USERNAME.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
Virgin.net: http://freespace.virgin.net/USERNAME/
NTL: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/USERNAME/

Virgin Media

Blueyonder

Virgin.net

NTL:

Basic Google scrapes
http://paste.archivingyoursh.it/gavigisuso.avrasm
http://paste.archivingyoursh.it/fuwasiviro.avrasm
http://paste.archivingyoursh.it/kunaxewaro.avrasm

References