DEMOS (Demos) was the first
internet service provider
An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet. ISPs can be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non-profit, or otherwise privatel ...
in the
USSR
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.
History
DEMOS was established in 1989 in Moscow as a programmers' cooperative, which included employees of the
Kurchatov Institute. For the first few months, the cooperative was called "Interface"; then it was renamed in honor of the
DEMOS operating system. In 1990, DEMOS, in cooperation with the scientific network
Relkom, registered a
top-level domain . This domain become the starting point for development of the
Russian segment of the Internet - RUnet.
[Grekov, Alexander]
"The ISP Scene in Russia"
. ''Netnod'', 24 September 2010.
See also
*
Kremvax
References
External links
Site of DEMOS (in Russian)Relcom history (in Russian)
History of the Internet
Internet service providers of Russia
Companies based in Moscow
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