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

[Brian E Carpenter]

Give enormous credit to Kilnam Chon who drove this very hard.

Regards
   Brian Carpenter

On 31/12/2015 00:37, Vint Cerf wrote:
> just downloaded them - wow - a huge contribution!
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> v
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> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 6:26 AM, Dmitry Burkov <dburk at burkov.aha.ru> wrote:
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>> I hope that the project in whole could be useful - now it contains 3
>> volumes
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>> *http://internethistory <http://internethistory>*.*asia*/
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>> *Dima*
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>> On Dec 30, 2015, at 2:11 PM, Vint Cerf <vint at google.com> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 2:40 AM, Dmitry Burkov <dburk at burkov.aha.ru>
>> wrote:
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>>> We did a small contribution to Asia Internet History book
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>>> https://sites.google.com/site/annexinternethistory/home/1append-Russia.docx?attredirects=0&d=1
>>>
>>> which covered this period too..
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>>>
>>> Dmitry Burkov
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>>> On Dec 30, 2015, at 3:56 AM, Vint Cerf <vint at google.com> wrote:
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>>> 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
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>>>
>>> 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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