be updated . please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information . november 2014 united online software development india private limited type subsidiary headquarters newark new jersey united states industry internet service provider parent united online website http www.juno.com alexa rank 3100 may 2011 update 1 the earliest juno logo circa 1996 the year the company was founded . the juno client software icon . juno online services also called simply juno is an internet service provider based in the united states . it is a subsidiary of united online which in turn is a subsidiary of investment bank b. riley financial . 2 united online is also the parent of netzero and bluelight internet services . contents 1 history 2 proprietary client 3 development centers 4 see also 5 external links 6 references history edit juno was founded in may of 1996 by charles ardai brian marsh and clifford tse with equity capital provided by the d.e. shaw group and headquarters in the same midtown manhattan building as shaw . in august of 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 and similar less automated offline readers that had been used for years by bbses to save phone line connect time . in june of 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 of 1999 juno began to offer the same service minus 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 of 2015 to a maximum of 10 hours per month . 3 with the collapse of the 1990s dot com bubble 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 . juno stock began trading on nasdaq in may of 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 of 2001 the two companies were merged into the present day united online and both jweb and nzro were delisted . juno released along with netzero a service that purported to make web browsing faster . it displayed pictures at lower resolutions thereby speeding page loads . 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 . 4 the plan was to assemble a quasi supercomputer using customers s processors and sell computing services to private companies . this additional revenue was intended to keep the company afloat after the dot com bubble . 5 most customers did not notice the change of terms . though a customer for the juno virtual supercomputer service was announced 6 it remained unclear as of the middle of july of 2015 whether the company followed through on this plan . proprietary client edit the client software was updated many times in the late 1990s . version 1.49 was final for windows 3.1 except for a date problem that was fixed in version 1.51 . versions 4.0.11 and 5.0.33 were final for windows 95 and later . version 4 had attachments and a spell checker and displayed fonts and colors . for old messages it had storage folders each stored in a separate file containing up to 1000 messages . version 5 added an ineffective integral twit spam filter and the ability to write messages in chosen fonts and colors with inline images . it stored its old messages in a different format with one large file for all messages . when disk free space was not several times larger than the message file it often suffered folder collapse in which all messages returned to the inbox or disappeared . as of december 1 2004 use of an e mail client such as the juno client microsoft outlook express or eudora had ceased to be free . users who wished to use an e mail client instead of juno s web based e mail interface were required to pay for either juno platinum or juno megamail . 7 the juno client software s version 5.0 build 33 would not work with internet explorer 7 . 8 however by the time microsoft released the final version of ie7 juno had released juno 5.0 build 49 which resolved the issues with ie7 and made it compatible with windows vista . 9 version 8 compatible with windows 7 was released in 2009 . the proprietary mailers were only slightly supported in the 21st century and users were expected to use pop3 standard mail clients . no version of juno s offline mail reader was made to use third party utilities to scan for viruses or clean out e mail spam among messages that had already been downloaded . versions 5 and 8 could weed downloaded email messages individually by exact email address matches ; however there were no wildcards boolean exclusion filters or routing features to facilitate this . the company opened a spamdesk to help screen spam at the servers thus minimizing the amount of spam received by the juno client . while the juno client software could back up e mails and addresses it did not support exporting these to other clients nor did other clients support importing from juno . only a handful of third party utilities were made that could do anything with the proprietary message storage format ; instead users were forced to use third party applications to convert and export the data principally juno5bdb for messages which juno stored in a berkeley db and dawn for addresses . development centers edit juno also opened an offshore development center at hyderabad india which it called united online software development india pvt. ltd. see also edit united online netzero external links edit juno company website juno email clients information about how to extract mail and addresses from several versions of the juno email client to other clients juno accmail discussion list for juno users references edit juno.com traffic details from alexa . alexa internet inc. retrieved may 28 2011 . b. riley financial completes acquisition of united online . pr newswire . retrieved july 3 2016 . product information . juno . retrieved 2007 01 15 . staff writer cnet news 2001 02 01 . juno to harvest wasted pc power . retrieved 2009 04 02 . michael 2001 02 02 . juno and privacy . retrieved 2009 04 02 . incubator buys into juno virtual supercomputer by thor olavsrud may 1 2001 internetnews.com faq email policy changes . juno support . retrieved 2007 01 15 . juno member services 2006 02 03 . juno and internet explorer 7 beta potential issues . retrieved 2007 01 15 . download the software . juno . retrieved 2007 01 15 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title juno online services & oldid 728093187 categories internet service providers of the united statescompanies based in newark new jerseyhidden categories wikipedia articles in need of updating from november 2014all wikipedia articles in need of updatingarticles containing potentially dated statements from may 2011all articles containing potentially dated statements navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 3 july 2016 at 04 00 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view