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Vadym Hetman, the sale of free tickets for Chernobyl children, the return of Afghan refugees from Iran, and an anticyclone that crept in. Only the news that the day before Ukraine received a national domain on the Internet went unnoticed -. UA. And for good reason: in the following decades, the Ukrainian Internet changed the lives of millions. A generation has grown up that is barely able to write a statement by hand, but at the same time types online with the speed of a professional typist. They don't know what a library looks like, but they can find information on any topic in a matter of minutes. Finally, they know how to have interlocutors all over the world without leaving the monitor. The first of the first In the era of Ukraine's independence, it entered the Network with three access points, including in the capital's Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren. Serhiy Pisarev, one of the pioneers of the Ukrainian Internet, recalls: "Those were terribly fun times.
Entering the office at 3-4 o'clock in the morning (and it was daytime Panama Phone Number in the States at that time), you could see a mountain of cigarette butts and a group of long-haired, unshaven young programmers. They were laughing because they were joking with their peers on the other side of the Atlantic. These were funny interfaces, there was no web yet and in the past. E-mail was the Internet back then." According to the head of this node, Yuriy Muravyov, the first clients were bankers, stockbrokers and, surprisingly, doctors of the Okhmatdyt clinic, that is, those who needed communication with foreign colleagues: "During the day, the computer contacted the Moscow node (of the Institute named after Kurchatov), we took the mail and delivered it to the addressees." Two more points, where it was possible to receive and transmit e-mail, were organized at the Kyiv Technosoft and at the Kharkiv telegraph and telephone station. In all cases, at first it was about nodes that were part of Relcom - the only network at that time on the territory of the countries of the former Union.
"Letters were collected in a queue, then this queue was transferred in one fell swoop. It was possible to send a letter and receive an answer a few hours later. Everything was transmitted by telephone wires, and then a dedicated channel was launched," says Dmytro Kohmaniuk, today the domain administrator. UA. The first dedicated line to Ukraine appeared in Kharkiv in 1993. "I still have the noise of the home modem ringing in my ears," recalls veteran user Ihor Vaskovskyi. - I remember my first desire was to download and save as much as possible on the disk of my 386th IBM." Another memory is the attempts of the neighbors to call Igor to order: due to the regular dialing of the modem, the phone on the blocker was busy day and night. Fido forever "Do you remember the movie "Man from Capuchin Boulevard"? - is interested Serhiy Zhigalin, a fan of the worldwide computer network Fidonet. - That episode where the rascal Mr. Second takes the place of the romantic cinematographer Mr. Festus." According to Serhiy, the same thing happened with the Internet: an idea that could unite humanity over time became commercialized, and businessmen replaced the romantics. The last island of selflessness and social equality,
Entering the office at 3-4 o'clock in the morning (and it was daytime Panama Phone Number in the States at that time), you could see a mountain of cigarette butts and a group of long-haired, unshaven young programmers. They were laughing because they were joking with their peers on the other side of the Atlantic. These were funny interfaces, there was no web yet and in the past. E-mail was the Internet back then." According to the head of this node, Yuriy Muravyov, the first clients were bankers, stockbrokers and, surprisingly, doctors of the Okhmatdyt clinic, that is, those who needed communication with foreign colleagues: "During the day, the computer contacted the Moscow node (of the Institute named after Kurchatov), we took the mail and delivered it to the addressees." Two more points, where it was possible to receive and transmit e-mail, were organized at the Kyiv Technosoft and at the Kharkiv telegraph and telephone station. In all cases, at first it was about nodes that were part of Relcom - the only network at that time on the territory of the countries of the former Union.
"Letters were collected in a queue, then this queue was transferred in one fell swoop. It was possible to send a letter and receive an answer a few hours later. Everything was transmitted by telephone wires, and then a dedicated channel was launched," says Dmytro Kohmaniuk, today the domain administrator. UA. The first dedicated line to Ukraine appeared in Kharkiv in 1993. "I still have the noise of the home modem ringing in my ears," recalls veteran user Ihor Vaskovskyi. - I remember my first desire was to download and save as much as possible on the disk of my 386th IBM." Another memory is the attempts of the neighbors to call Igor to order: due to the regular dialing of the modem, the phone on the blocker was busy day and night. Fido forever "Do you remember the movie "Man from Capuchin Boulevard"? - is interested Serhiy Zhigalin, a fan of the worldwide computer network Fidonet. - That episode where the rascal Mr. Second takes the place of the romantic cinematographer Mr. Festus." According to Serhiy, the same thing happened with the Internet: an idea that could unite humanity over time became commercialized, and businessmen replaced the romantics. The last island of selflessness and social equality,