DEMOS (Internet service provider)

DEMOS was established in 1989 in Moscow as a programmers' cooperative, which included employees of the Kurchatov Institute.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. For the first few months, the cooperative was called "Interface"; then it was renamed in honor of the DEMOS operating system.Minton, Jim. [http://www.computer-history.info/Page4.dir/pages/LTSS.NLTSS.dir/pages/WritingAnOS.html "Gathering People To Write An Operating System"]. In 1990, DEMOS, in cooperation with the scientific network Relkom, registered a top-level domain {{notatypo|.su}}.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 This domain become the starting point for development of the Russian segment of the Internet - RUnet.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.

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• [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 }}

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