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I'd add BlueYonder into the list as they were the ISP associated with Telewest who got merged into NTL, that then became Virgin.

I think I've got some old freebie magazine CD's somewhere where every month some firm was offering a freebie ISP service...you just clicked on a brand icon on the first screen when you loaded up the auto-running CD and chose the one you wanted to sign up for...