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Jeff Masters , a PhD candidate in Meteorology at the University Of Michigan , working under the direction of Professor Perry Samson , wrote a menu-based Telnet interface in 1991 , which displayed real-time weather information around the world. By 1992 , the two servers that they used became the most popular service on the Internet at that time. In 1993 they initiated a project to bring Internet weather into K-12 classrooms. The growing Internet weather program was given the name " The Weather Underground ", a Tongue-in-cheek reference to the 1960s radical communist group that also originated at the University of Michigan. In late spring of 1995 , the Weather Underground, Inc. evolved as a separate commercial entity from the university. It has grown to provide weather for print sources as well as online. In 2005 Weather Underground became the weather provider for Associated Press . EXTERNAL LINKS
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