In computing, Britain's first and largest mass-market
Internet Service Provider. Founded in 1992 by English hardware salesperson Cliff Stanford with 200 founding subscribers who each paid £120 in advance for a year's service, Demon set the price (£10 a month plus VAT) for Internet access in the UK. The number of Demon users grew to 65,000 in 1996 and 250,000 in 1998, when the company was taken over by Scottish Telecom.
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