Software companies disestablished in 1999

Zip2 Corp. was a company that provided and licensed online city guide software to newspapers. The company was founded in Palo Alto, California, as Global Link Information Network, Inc. on November 9, 1995, by Greg Kouri and brothers Elon and Kimbal Musk. Initially, Global Link provided local businesses with an Internet presence, but later began to assist newspapers in designing online city guides before being purchased by Compaq Computer in 1999.

The Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (later Corporation), most commonly known as MECC, was an organization founded in 1973 for the purpose of advancing availability of computer software in education. MECC is best known for developing the edutainment video game series The Oregon Trail and its spin-offs. The initial goal of the organization was to coordinate and provide computer services to schools in the state of Minnesota, but its software eventually became popular in schools around the world. MECC had its headquarters in the Brookdale Corporate Center in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota.

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