CGNET Services International, based in Menlo Park, California, is an example of an early pioneer in the field of international data communications. Beginning with landmark achievements the 1980s and 1990s CGNET has come to be one of the world’s most well-known email providers in the international nonprofit community. Founded in 1983 by Georg Lindsey, CGNET built some of the earliest international email networks, providing custom email services over the Dialcom network in 1984 and later moving to the Internet.