DEMOS (ISP)

DEMOS (Demos) was the first internet service provider in the USSR.[1]

History

DEMOS was established in 1989 in Moscow as a programmers' cooperative, which included employees of the Kurchatov Institute.[2] For the first few months, the cooperative was called "Interface"; then it was renamed in honor of the DEMOS operating system.[3] In 1990, DEMOS, in cooperation with the scientific network Relkom, registered a top-level domain .su.[4] This domain become the starting point for development of the Russian segment of the Internet - RUnet.[5]

See also

References
  1. Travica, Bob. The Business Web in Russia: Usability for the Western User. 59th Annual Meeting of ASIS, Baltimore, MD, 21–24 October 1996
  2. Lakhman, Marina. "Mother Russia Does a Slow Dance With the Net". New York Times on the web, 7 October 1997.
  3. Minton, Jim. "Gathering People To Write An Operating System".
  4. Rohozinski, Rafal. "Mapping Russian Cyberspace". United Nations Institute for Social Development, October 1999
  5. Grekov, Alexander. "The ISP Scene in Russia" Archived 2015-01-02 at the Wayback Machine. Netnod, 24 September 2010.
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