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Company

ShellShark Networks (aka ShellShark Communications) started life around 2004 as a small consulting company specializing in networking and custom web applications. It then grew into a mid-sized Internet Telephony Service Provider (ITSP, aka Voice Service Provider or VSP). It became aparant that focusing on communications was far more in demand than network consulting, so the company turned solely into an ITSP around January of 2007. The company had internal managerial issues that caused the disbandment of partners around May of 2007. The one remaining partner finally closed the doors completely around June of 2007. Now, ShellShark Networks (aka ShellShark Communications) is no longer in business, but I decided to keep the website up for nostalgic purposes.

Social


The social history of ShellShark aka ShellShark Networks aka ShellShark Communications started as a funny name that I had thought of. I purchased the domain, then formed an online group on one of the world's largest IRC networks, Freenode (at the time, it was called Open Projects). Throughout the history of ShellShark as a social "club", and then an actual business, #ShellShark has always been a harbor for various international geeks. Right now, we've got four Canadians, two Americans, an Egyptian, a Belgian, a guy from Czech Republic, and a few bots, of course. Come check us out sometime.