Birthday of the .SU domain

Citizens of the USSR, which today many want to present as a technically backward country, had access to the achievements of civilization that became part of modern realities Plastic cards appeared in the Soviet Union even before its collapse and transition from socialism to capitalism In 1988, Intourist signed with VISA Inc an agreement that made him a member of this company with the right to issue - issue payment cards The concept of implementing the organization was developed by Sberbank of the USSR over 2 years Personal computers were a dream for most Soviet citizens, as was access to the global Internet In August 1990, the first communication session between the USSR and Finland took place using the World Wide Web in the form of sending letters by e-mail Few people know, but back in 1959, in the name of NS Khrushchev Colonel AI Kitov was sent a scientific and technical proposal, which contained a project to create a prototype of the Internet network that exists today If this idea had been put into motion, the global network would have appeared in the Soviet Union 10 years earlier than in the United States In 1985-1987 programmers from the Kurchatov Institute developed their own version of Unix, which was available at the Niels Bohr Institute, and launched a local network based on it The software, for which the entire team received an award from the Council of Ministers in 1988, was called the Dialogue Unified Mobile Operating System, or DEMOS for short The leader of the group persuaded the head of the institute, EP Velikhov provide his work telephone number, for which an international calling line was opened, and purchase modems After this, on August 28, 1990, a historic exchange of emails between Soviet programmers and colleagues from the University of Helsinki took place Few modern network users know that before the advent of the national domain RU, there was its predecessor - SU (Soviet Union), which was used on the territory of the USSR It was registered in the UNIX Users Association by a young programmer from the Kurchatov Institute, Vadim Antonov, on September 19, 1990 The first organization to create a resource using a national domain in the name was the Department of Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences Despite the fact that the USSR ceased to exist in 1991, SU was actively used in naming website addresses Registration in this domain zone was suspended in 1994 due to the emergence of RU However, in 2002, the Internet Development Foundation, a new administrator, resumed work Today, according to the statistics service, more than 108 thousand names are registered with SU In honor of the emergence of a new segment of the Internet in 1990, the birthday of the SU domain is celebrated on September 19 In 2007, an Agreement was reached between the Internet Development Fund and the Russian Research Institute for the Development of Public Networks to support the SU domain The date of its signing was also September 19 The purpose of the agreement is to create optimal conditions for the development and functioning of the domain This gave even greater status to September 19 as a holiday dedicated to the emergence of a new national segment on the World Wide Web, which was not abandoned in Russia even after the collapse of the USSR