Tangent Internet inactive
Victorian dialup ISP (outer-eastern Melbourne; tangnt.com.au) run by Matthew Proctor from Jan 1994; operations folded into Imagineering Technologies on his departure in Feb 1997 (Tangent Internet Services).
Name history
| Name | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Tangent Internet | Jan 1994 |
Lifecycle
| Kind | Date | Details | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|
| birth | Jan 1994 approx | Founded Jan 1994 by Matthew Proctor; became one of Victoria's largest metropolitan ISPs, serving Melbourne's outer-eastern suburbs with residential/business dial-up and web hosting (per founder's career record). Earliest verified Wayback capture of tangnt.com.au is 19 Dec 1996. | |
| death | Feb 1997 | Founder Matthew Proctor departed after ~3 years (Jan 1994 - Feb 1997); Tangent's ISP operations were folded into Imagineering Technologies Pty Ltd, which he co-founded at that time. [Prior record said 'defunct c.2005' - incorrect.] | official archive |
Transitions
| Direction | Type | Other party | Arm / notes | Year | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | merger | Imagineering Technologies | Tangent Internet's ISP operations folded into Imagineering Technologies Pty Ltd, co-founded by Tangent's managing director Matthew Proctor upon his departure (Jan 1994 - Feb 1997. Same-founder continuation; no ACN evidence of legal-entity continuity between the two companies was found. | Feb 1997 | official |
References
- No references recorded.