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

Johan Helsingius julf at julf.com
Thu Dec 31 04:05:27 PST 2015


On 31/12/15 12:33, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:

> Wow -- so I got my chronology wrong. I always figured that the link via
> Finland had been microwave. So it was a dial up after all at that moment?

No, leased line. Have to dig up some old archives to find exact
dates.

> Also of interest: http://collapse.su/  and the usually interesting
> historical stuff from https://nsrc.org/db/lookup/country.php?ISO=RU

There is also the famous IRC log:

http://web.archive.org/web/20090628013626/http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/communications/logs/report-ussr-gorbatchev

	Julf




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