Cable company phases out Road Runner as Web brand

By Bob Sigall

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Oct 05, 2012

~~<p>More than 250,000 people in Hawaii access the World Wide Web though Oceanic Cable's high-speed internet service. Since 2010 the company has been moving away from its service Road Runner. Before it does so completely, I thought I'd explore its history.</p>
<p>Time Warner Cable Ventures developed Road Runner as a cable alternative to slow, dial-up phone modems in the 1990s. Executives Glenn Britt and Carl Rossetti said they had not even heard of the Internet when they undertook rolling out the service on an experimental basis in Elmira, N.Y., in 1995.</p>
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More than 250,000 people in Hawaii access the World Wide Web though Oceanic Cable's high-speed internet service. Since 2010 the company has been moving away from its service Road Runner. Before it does so completely, I thought I'd explore its history.

Time Warner Cable Ventures developed Road Runner as a cable alternative to slow, dial-up phone modems in the 1990s. Executives Glenn Britt and Carl Rossetti said they had not even heard of the Internet when they undertook rolling out the service on an experimental basis in Elmira, N.Y., in 1995. Login for more...