Customer Service, Sales and Marketing, Web Development, Accounting, along with a senior management team and a board of directors. ClarkNet also rolled out a training curriculum for individuals and businesses to teach basic to advanced courses in web development and Internet research. Services provided included: Dialup TCP/IP; Dialup shell access; Dedicated circuits such as ISDN, T1, Frame Relay, SMDS; Web hosting; Web development; Colocation hosting. At its largest it had over 20,000 dialup customers and 2,000 dedicated customers. ClarkNet was purchased by Verio in late 1997 but retained a large degree of local autonomy and continued to grow under the Verio brand with many of the original ClarkNet employees in place. Verio was sold to NTT in 2000 by which time the product focus had shifted away from dial-up and dedicated Internet access to web hosting and most of the original ClarkNet staff, products and network were let-go, dismantled or sold (respectively) over the 2000-2003 period. The barn on the Clark farm where ClarkNet started burned down in an accident on November 15, 2004, although the company was no longer in existence nor being used by Verio at the time. See also Clark's Elioak Farm One Maryland Inter-County Broadband Network - Howard County based broadband External links Sullivan, Kevin. "Interface Among Equals; Deaf Man Sees Vocation in Computer System." The Washington Post, September 14, 1993 , from a December 1996 ClarkNet home-page. Glasser, Jeff. "Internet Entrepreneur Undaunted." The Washington Post, August 12, 1996 Gately, Gary. "Denver firm buys into ClarkNet Columbia Internet service to expand", The Baltimore Sun, October 21, 1997 via Wayback Machine Rogers, John. "ClarkNet Is Purchased By Verio, Colorado-based Internet Services Provider." The Business Monthly, November 1997 via Wayback Machine "ClarkNet Founder Takes a Chance on the Internet and Wins", Johns Hopkins University, background about Jamie Clark and ClarkNet via Wayback Machine "Roll-up or not, is it right for you?", Interview with CEO Drew Clark in 1999 via Wayback Machine Internet service providers of the United States Defunct Internet service providers Defunct companies based in Maryland Internet properties established in 1993