On April 20th, 1994 Zhongguancun Education and Scientific Research Demonstration Network (NCFC) was opened through the 64K international dedicated line of Sprint Company of the United States, marking the official full-function access of China to the Internet.
This year is 16 of China's reform and opening-up, and it is also the first year for China to open the Internet era. Since then, China has become the 77th country with full-featured Internet.
From 1994, the first full-featured Internet access in China to the end of 20 17, the Internet penetration rate reached 55.8%, and the Internet infrastructure construction in China experienced a leap-forward development from scratch and from strong to strong.
Today, the construction of high-speed optical fiber network in China has been accelerated, the Internet and domestic backbone networks have been greatly expanded, the broadband and 4G network infrastructure has reached the international advanced level, the next generation Internet based on IPv6 has been vigorously developed, and the Internet carrying capacity and service level have been significantly improved.
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1990165438+1October 28th, top-level domain name. CN is registered in China. Since then, China has his own identity on the Internet. However, because China was not fully connected at that time, the server of China top-level domain name could only be located in Karlsruhe University.
It was not until1May 2, 9941that the computer network information center completed the server setup of China's national top-level domain names, ending the history that China.cn's top-level domain name servers have been registered abroad. After many twists and turns, the Internet in China finally got an unstable start.
1995, the General Administration of Telecommunications of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications also set up 64K special lines in Beijing and Shanghai to access the American network through the American Sprint Company, and provide Internet access services to the public through the telephone network, DDN special line and X.25 network, thus opening an era of providing commercial Internet services to the public.
A year later, China's public computer Internet (CHINANET) national backbone network was completed and opened. For ordinary home users, as long as they have computers, modems and telephone lines, surfing the Internet is no longer an unreachable dream.
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People's network technology is changing with each passing day. Internet: the wind is strong before the waves.