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The Internet in Russia, Russian internet (also known as the runet) is a part of the Internet with its main content in Russian. According to data from August 2019 and studies conducted by W3Techs, 6.5% of the 10 million most popular Internet sites in the world use Russian. In 2013, according to these studies, the Russian language became the second most used on the Internet after English. Background In the USSR, the first computer networks appeared in the 1950s in missile defense system at Sary Shagan (first they were tested in Moscow at Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering). 1957 Sputnik crisis contributed to development of computer networks both in USSR and USA. The Sputnik-1 online trajectory digital data was collected at 70 tracking stations, transmitted binarily via telegraph and then calculated at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre, Computing Centre of the Academy of Sciences. In the 1960s, the massive computer network project called OGAS was pro ...
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