Editing Juno Online Services (section)

==History==
[[Image:Junologo.jpg|thumb|left|The earliest Juno logo, circa 1996, the year the company was founded.]]
Juno was founded in May 1996 by [[Charles Ardai]], Brian Marsh and Clifford Tse, with equity capital provided by the [[D. E. Shaw & Co.|D. E. Shaw Group]] and headquarters in the same [[Midtown Manhattan]] building as Shaw. In August 1996, it began a free [[e-mail]] service — a customer would install the proprietary Juno client which would allow them to send and receive email of about 35 kilobytes in size. Version 1 did not offer attachments or other features. The user could write emails with the Juno client and would periodically sign in by dial-up. Upon doing so, the Juno client would upload any emails the user had written, download any new incoming emails in the online mailbox, and download targeted advertisements, which were displayed in the client. This was similar to "[[QWK (file format)|QWK]]" and similar less automated [[offline reader]]s that had been used for years by [[Bulletin board system|BBSes]] to save phone line connect time.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}

In June 1998, Juno expanded its service to offer premium support for paying subscribers, and added the ability to browse the web in addition to use of email. In December 1999, Juno began to offer the same service (without technical support) for free, provided the user ran the Juno client, which displayed a bar containing advertisements for the majority of the time that the user was online. Juno later imposed limits on how much usage could be made of its free Internet service in a single month. Free service was limited, as of the middle of July 2015, to a maximum of 10 hours per month.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://account.juno.com/s/landing?action=viewProduct&productId=free&group=iso-standard-plus-commitment
|title=Product Information
|publisher=Juno
|accessdate=2007-01-15
}}</ref>

With the collapse of the 1990s [[Dot-com bubble]], [[Internet marketing|Internet advertising]] revenues declined and the company shifted emphasis to offering discount Web and mail services similar to large ISPs, but at half the price.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}

Juno stock began trading on NASDAQ in May 1999, under the symbol JWEB. In June 2001, Juno and [[NetZero]], which also traded on NASDAQ but under the symbol NZRO, announced a merger. The two had been in litigation over the patent which NetZero held to provide free Internet access by using an Ad bar. Though NetZero held the said patent, Juno had six million members, and thus was far larger. Eventually, they chose to merge rather than continue to fight in court. By September 2001, the two companies were merged into the present-day [[United Online]], and both JWEB and NZRO were delisted.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}

Juno released, along with NetZero, a service that purported to make web browsing faster. It displayed pictures at lower resolutions, thereby speeding page loads.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}

In 2001, Juno enacted a new version of their privacy policy. By continuing to use the service, customers implicitly agreed to allow Juno to harvest any unused CPU cycles.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-251978.html
|title=Juno to harvest wasted PC power
|author=Staff Writer, CNET News 
|date=2001-02-01
|accessdate=2009-04-02
}}</ref> The plan was to assemble a [[Grid computing|quasi supercomputer]] using customers processors and sell computing services to private companies. This additional revenue was intended to keep the company afloat after the [[dot-com bubble]].<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/02/01/2127239
|title=Juno and Privacy
|author=michael
|date=2001-02-02
|accessdate=2009-04-02
}}</ref> Most customers did not notice the change of terms. Though a customer for the Juno Virtual Supercomputer service was announced,<ref>[http://www.internetnews.com/isp-news/article.php/756081/Bioinformatics+Incubator+Buys+Into+Junos+Virtual+Supercomputer.htm Incubator buys into Juno Virtual Supercomputer] by Thor Olavsrud, May 1, 2001, Internetnews.com</ref> it remained unclear, as of the middle of July 2015, whether the company followed through on this plan.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}