[ih] How the Soviet Union Sent Its First Man to the Internet in 1982

[Vint Cerf]

just downloaded them - wow - a huge contribution!

v


On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 6:26 AM, Dmitry Burkov <dburk at burkov.aha.ru> wrote:

> I hope that the project in whole could be useful - now it contains 3
> volumes
>
> *http://internethistory <http://internethistory>*.*asia*/
>
> *Dima*
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> On Dec 30, 2015, at 2:11 PM, Vint Cerf <vint at google.com> wrote:
>
> Dmitry, this is very helpful - I knew about some of this work but not all
> of it by any means. I recall there was a huge flap about 1983 when it was
> learned that the Russians had access to ARPANET via IIASA and the X.25
> system - it was about that time that I was promoting TCP/IP over X.25 for
> commercial access to the nascent Internet :-)
>
> thanks so much for preparing and sharing.
>
> vint
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 2:40 AM, Dmitry Burkov <dburk at burkov.aha.ru>
> wrote:
>
>> We did a small contribution to Asia Internet History book
>>
>>
>> https://sites.google.com/site/annexinternethistory/home/1append-Russia.docx?attredirects=0&d=1
>>
>> which covered this period too..
>>
>>
>> Dmitry Burkov
>>
>> On Dec 30, 2015, at 3:56 AM, Vint Cerf <vint at google.com> wrote:
>>
>> who ever wrote this must not have done any homework. Internet was not
>> turned on until Jan 1983. This sounds like simply a direct modem link to a
>> server in Stockholm.
>>
>> v
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> https://globalvoices.org/2015/12/29/how-the-soviet-union-sent-its-first-man-to-the-internet-in-1982/
>>>
>>> (excerpt)
>>>
>>> The terminal used by Klyosov to join the conference was a Soviet ES-EVM
>>> computer <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ES_EVM>(designed from
>>> blueprints stolen from IBM). It was connected to the only modem supposed to
>>> officially exist in all of the USSR: an antediluvian 360 baud/s device. In
>>> comparison, this device had a capacity 22 times less than the old 56k
>>> modems that were widely used in the early 2000s: the text display rate on
>>> the 360 baud/s modem was of one letter per second.
>>> This precious modem was protected by a security presence so impressive
>>> that Klyosov later wrote he had not seen such since his childhood, when he
>>> lived with his parents on the Kapustin Yar missile test polygon
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapustin_Yar> under Stalin.
>>> [image: An EVM ES-1033 computer with control panel. These were developed
>>> in the USSR in the 1970s-1980s. Image courtesy of computer-museum.ru.]
>>> An EVM ES-1033 computer with control panel. These were developed in the
>>> USSR in the 1970s-1980s. Image courtesy of computer-museum.ru.
>>>
>>> Surrounded by many soldiers, the computer room itself was empty. So when
>>> Klyosov logged in for the first time, he was alone when these words
>>> appeared on the screen: “You are connected to the University of Stockholm
>>> server. Welcome.”
>>>
>>> Once logged in, Klyosov was free to talk and exchange any information he
>>> wanted, without any state control. Neither the fact that the computer room
>>> was surrounded by military guards, nor the fact that Klyosov was forbidden
>>> from going abroad had any influence. We can imagine how the situation
>>> created by this single connected Soviet computer and its only user might
>>> seem paradoxical. Just remember that the Soviet Union in the early 1980s
>>> remained a heavily cloistered state, with the authorities attempting at all
>>> costs to stop the transfer to the West of any kind of “dissident” cultural
>>> products (samizdat publications among them). In such a context, Klyosov’s
>>> case was truly exceptional.
>>>
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