American Foundation for the Blind And Interliant Announce Alliance;
   Interliant Contracted to Revolutionize Online Experience for Visually
   Impaired Individuals
   Updated 12:20 PM ET May 23, 2000 PURCHASE, N.Y. (BUSINESS WIRE) -
   Interliant, Inc. (NASDAQ:INIT), the leading global Application Service
   Provider (ASP), announced today that it has formed an alliance with
   the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) that will have a major
   impact on the accessibility of Internet information and services for
   people who are blind or visually impaired.

   To launch the alliance, Interliant has been contracted to transform
   the AFB Web site into an online resource center for visually impaired
   individuals worldwide, including approximately 10 million individuals
   in the U.S., their family and friends, the thousands of organizations
   and professionals who serve them, and the writers, researchers, and
   legislators who are interested in this population.

   "If Helen Keller were alive today, I expect that the World Wide Web
   would be as accessible as libraries and public buildings," said Carl
   Augusto, chief executive officer of AFB. "The online community that we
   are building with Interliant will bring Keller's vision of a
   barrier-free world for blind or visually impaired people into the 21st
   century - an ideal to which AFB has been committed to since we began
   working for visually impaired Americans nearly 80 years ago. The
   community will provide direct access to the unique body of knowledge
   that AFB has accumulated, including comprehensive information on
   services available to blind or visually impaired individuals in the
   United States and Canada."

   "Just as Interliant is revolutionizing the way organizations access
   application solutions, this joint project with AFB will revolutionize
   Internet access for blind or visually impaired individuals," said
   Leonard J. Fassler, co-chairman of Interliant. "Interliant truly
   believes in AFB's mission, and we are committed to helping AFB develop
   a community to provide equal access to the wealth of information that
   the Internet delivers. We believe that accessibility and appeal to
   sighted individuals can go hand-in-hand."

   Fassler also serves as co-chair of AFB's 2000 Helen Keller Achievement
   Awards dinner, which is being held this evening (May 23) in New York
   City.

   Although blind or visually impaired people today can access the
   Internet through the use of a Web browser, adaptive equipment, and/or
   synthetic speech software, common web site design often generates
   unreliable results. The online community under development will
   provide an accessible Web environment in which these tools can be used
   to navigate through a virtual clearinghouse of information.

   In addition, the community will include an accessible storefront.
   There will also be a community center where members can collaborate
   with each other, exchanging information, and reviewing event
   announcements and job opportunities.

   Because the community will feature graphics designed to appeal to
   sighted users, it will illustrate that visual aesthetics need not be
   compromised if a Web site is made accessible to the visually impaired.
   Interliant and AFB anticipate that the community will go live this
   summer.

   "We will combine Interliant's technical skills with AFB's subject
   matter expertise to level the playing field for blind and visually
   impaired Internet users," said David O'Neill, Interliant's senior
   director of consulting and professional services.

   O'Neill, whose experience in developing accessible technology
   solutions spans more than 10 years, will oversee the development of
   the AFB community with a team of sighted and visually impaired
   professionals.

   "This is the first of many services that Interliant will be able to
   provide to AFB," O'Neill added. "Our ability to furnish AFB with
   everything from business process modeling to applications development
   and hosting underscores the value that an ASP total solution brings to
   a company or organization. We manage the technology completely so that
   AFB can focus on its core mission."

   The American Foundation for the Blind - the organization to which
   Helen Keller devoted more than 40 years of her life - is a national
   nonprofit whose mission is to eliminate the inequities faced by the
   ten million Americans who are blind or visually impaired.

   Headquartered in New York City, AFB maintains offices in Atlanta,
   Chicago, Dallas, and San Francisco, and a governmental relations
   office in Washington, D.C.

   About Interliant, Inc.

   Interliant, Inc. (NASDAQ:INIT) is a leading application service
   provider (ASP) and pioneer in the ASP market. Interliant's offerings
   include messaging and knowledge management, security, e-commerce,
   customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning,
   distributed learning, Web-site hosting and Web-based rental
   applications via AppsOnline.com.

   Interliant, headquartered in Purchase, N.Y., maintains strategic
   alliances with the world's leading software, networking, and hardware
   manufacturers including Dell Computer Corporation (NASDAQ:DELL), IBM
   (NYSE:IBM), Lotus Development Corp., Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), BMC
   Software (NASDAQ:BMCS), and Network Solutions (NASDAQ:NSOL). For more
   information, please visit the Interliant Web site, www.interliant.com.

   Interliant is a registered trademark of Interliant, Inc. All other
   trademarks are the properties of their respective companies.

   This press release contains forward-looking statements within the
   meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities
   Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any statements contained herein that
   are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be
   forward-looking statements.

   Actual results and the timing of certain events may differ
   significantly from the results anticipated or discussed in the
   forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based
   largely on the Company's current expectations and are subject to a
   number of risks and uncertainties.

   In addition to this press release, other important factors to consider
   in evaluating the forward-looking statements include, without
   limitation, the Company's Form 10-K filed with the Securities and
   Exchange Commission ('SEC") on March 29, 2000, and the Company's
   registration statement on Form S-1, filed with the SEC on May 16, 2000
   and in other reports of the Company filed from time to time with the
   SEC.

   In light of these risks and uncertainties, there can be no assurance
   that the forward-looking statements contained herein will in fact be
   realized and the Company assumes no obligation to update this
   information.

   Contact: Interliant, Inc., Purchase Media and Industry Analyst
   Contact: Rosanne Desmone, 703/762-1759 [log in to unmask] or
   Investor Contact: Beth O'Byrne, 914/640-9000 [log in to unmask]


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