Russian Holidays - RuNet Birthday (National Domain .RU Day)

In 1994, on April 7, the national domain of the Russian Federation ru was registered Previously, Russian-language resources were placed only in general international domains (com - commercial sites, org - non-profit organizations, etc), and in the Soviet su domain (SovietUnion), which has existed since 1990 and today On that day, the first website wwwru and other domain names in the new zone were registered The slang word "Runet", made up of the domain designations "ru" and "net", appeared in 1997 Despite the fact that it has already been included in spelling and other dictionaries, there is still no precise definition of it In some cases, Runet refers only to sites in the ru and рф domain zones Yandex is also adding domain zones su, by, am, az, kz, ge, kg, md, ua, uz The broadest interpretation is given by the "Internet-Russian Phrasebook", according to which Runet is all Russian-language resources on the Network, regardless of the domain zone and the physical location of the servers Indeed, only such a definition allows us to classify such popular Russian-language portals as VKontakte (vkcom), Russian Wikipedia (ruwikipediaorg) and others as Runet By analogy, some other national segments of the Network began to be called: Tatnet (Tatar), Bynet (Belarusian), Uanet (Ukrainian), Kaznet (Kazakh), etc 1994 - the first Internet library was founded - Moshkov Library 1995 - the first online web design studio - A Lebedeva 1995 - the first entertainment portal - Anekdoteru 1996 - the first Russian search engine Rambler 1997 - the international guild of Runet workers EZHE was founded 1997 - Yandex was founded 1998 - the first money transfer in the Webmoney system 2001 - the start of Russian Wikipedia 2002 - the start of the federal program "Electronic Russia" 2009 - the first domain in the world appeared in the Cyrillic alphabet рф 2010 - the Government Services Portal of the Russian Federation is developing 2010 - the 3 millionth domain ru was registered 2012 - the start of the work of the “Russian Public Initiative” In 2013, the volume of e-commerce in Russia amounted to 16% of GDP On the 10th anniversary of the registration of the ru domain, in 2004, an annual award was established for a significant contribution to the development of the Russian part of the Network - the Runet Prize It is awarded in the nominations "Technology and Innovation", "State and Society" and others - a total of 6 main nominations, as well as 3 special and 3 nominations of popular vote The Prize is financially supported by Rospechat The nationwide Prize is awarded to both organizations - government, commercial, public - and individual figures Today, the share of Russian-language sites on the Internet is about 7%, while Russian is the second most popular language after English Most international sites have Russian-language versions