DEMOS (Internet service provider)

{{Short description|First internet service provider in the USSR}}

'''DEMOS''' (Demos) was the first internet service provider in the USSR.<ref>Travica, Bob. [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~btravica/ruswebar.html The Business Web in Russia: Usability for the Western User]. ''59th Annual Meeting of ASIS'', Baltimore, MD, 21–24 October 1996</ref>

== History == DEMOS was established in 1989 in Moscow as a programmers' cooperative, which included employees of the Kurchatov Institute.<ref>Lakhman, Marina. [http://partners.nytimes.com/library/cyber/euro/100797euro.html "Mother Russia Does a Slow Dance With the Net"]. ''New York Times on the web'', 7 October 1997.</ref> For the first few months, the cooperative was called "Interface"; then it was renamed in honor of the DEMOS operating system.<ref>Minton, Jim. [http://www.computer-history.info/Page4.dir/pages/LTSS.NLTSS.dir/pages/WritingAnOS.html "Gathering People To Write An Operating System"].</ref> In 1990, DEMOS, in cooperation with the scientific network Relkom, registered a top-level domain {{notatypo|.su}}.<ref>Rohozinski, Rafal. [http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/untc/unpan015092.pdf "Mapping Russian Cyberspace"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140513125230/http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/untc/unpan015092.pdf |date=2014-05-13 }}. ''United Nations Institute for Social Development'', October 1999</ref> This domain become the starting point for development of the Russian segment of the Internet - RUnet.<ref>Grekov, Alexander. [http://www.netnod.se/sites/default/files/the-isp-scene-in-russia.pdf "The ISP Scene in Russia"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150102161618/http://www.netnod.se/sites/default/files/the-isp-scene-in-russia.pdf |date=2015-01-02 }}. ''Netnod'', 24 September 2010.</ref>

==See also== * Kremvax

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== External links== * [http://demos.ru/ Site of DEMOS (in Russian)] * [http://news.demos.su/private/demos.html DEMOS history by Michael Davidov (in Russian)] * [http://www.relcom.ru/about/ Relcom history (in Russian)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130128045656/http://www.relcom.ru/about/ |date=2013-01-28 }} {{Portalbar|Companies|Russia}} {{authority control}} Category:History of the Internet Category:Internet service providers of Russia Category:Companies based in Moscow