United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798McGinnis, J. Lummis2005-12-09Encyclopedia article about EarthLink. Atlanta-based EarthLink, an independent Internet service provider (ISP), traces its history to the early 1990s, when Charles Brewer founded MindSpring and Sky Dayton founded EarthLink Network. Each company provided broad consumer access to the Internet. The two organizations merged in 2000 to form one of the nation's largest ISPs, and five years later EarthLink had 5 million subscribers and 2,000 employees. In 2005 1,100 employees worked in Earthlink's corporate headquarters on the corner of Peachtree and Seventeenth streets.text/htmlengForms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.Internet service providers--Georgia--AtlantaEarthLink Network, Inc.EarthLinkText