DEMOS (Demos) was the first internet service provider in the USSR.
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
External links
- Site of DEMOS (in Russian)
- DEMOS history by Michael Davidov (in Russian)
- Relcom history (in Russian) Archived 2013-01-28 at the Wayback Machine
References
Travica, Bob. The Business Web in Russia: Usability for the Western User. 59th Annual Meeting of ASIS, Baltimore, MD, 21–24 October 1996 http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~btravica/ruswebar.html ↩
Lakhman, Marina. "Mother Russia Does a Slow Dance With the Net". New York Times on the web, 7 October 1997. https://partners.nytimes.com/library/cyber/euro/100797euro.html ↩
Minton, Jim. "Gathering People To Write An Operating System". http://www.computer-history.info/Page4.dir/pages/LTSS.NLTSS.dir/pages/WritingAnOS.html ↩
Rohozinski, Rafal. "Mapping Russian Cyberspace" Archived 2014-05-13 at the Wayback Machine. United Nations Institute for Social Development, October 1999 http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/untc/unpan015092.pdf ↩
Grekov, Alexander. "The ISP Scene in Russia" Archived 2015-01-02 at the Wayback Machine. Netnod, 24 September 2010. http://www.netnod.se/sites/default/files/the-isp-scene-in-russia.pdf ↩