Thirty years ago, on April 7, 1994, the first Russian domain zone .RU was launched

Thirty years ago, on April 7, 1994, the first Russian domain zone .RU was launched. The internet emerged in the USSR in the early 1980s when employees of research institutes gained access to the World Wide Web. On August 1, 1990, the first the first intra-Soviet network, “Relcom,“ was created. The official date of the internet’s appearance in Russia is considered to be August 28, 1990, when the first communication session using a telephone modem occurred between the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy and the University of Helsinki, Finland. In September 1990, the domain .su was registered with the international domain registrar, IANA. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it was used for several more years, but in 1993, Russian providers agreed to submit a joint application for the creation of a new domain zone .ru. It was delegated on April 7, 1994. In 2007, the millionth domain was registered in the .ru zone, and two years later, there were 2 million. Today, the number of... Source: InfoDefenseENGLISH