PowerUp inactive
Brisbane ISP, began as a community BBS (Morningside, Lloyd Ernst); became Qld's largest ISP; spun off WebCentral; sold to OzEmail (POWER UP PTY LTD, ACN 068 604 955).
Name history
| Name | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| PowerUp | c. 1999 |
Lifecycle
| Kind | Date | Details | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|
| birth | by 1995 by | Major early Queensland ISP; earliest Wayback capture of powerup.com.au. | |
| death | c. 2003 approx | Sold to OzEmail; PowerUp split and WebCentral was formed. The PowerUp brand survived the 1998/2000 OzEmail takeovers and was still served in Oct 2003, so death is c. 2003 — later than both the current 1999 and the proposed 1999-2000. | press wayback-replay wayback-replay |
Transitions
| Direction | Type | Other party | Arm / notes | Year | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | split | WebCentral | web hosting arm PowerUp split; WebCentral formed as Australia's first web-hosting business. |
c.1996-97 | news encyclopedia forum |
| outgoing | acquisition | OzEmail | 100% PowerUp sold to OzEmail (per founder Lloyd Ernst. |
full control Mar-Apr 2000 | wikipedia news news |