DEMOS (Demos) was the first
internet service provider
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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
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. 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
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. 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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