JUNET

JUNET (Japan University NETwork ) was similar to Usenet in Japan for research purposes built computer network.

The systems were connected via a telephone circuit via which exchanged a UUCP implementation of e- mails and newsgroup postings.

1984 was established between the University of Tokyo, Keio University and the Tokyo Institute of Technology, a data network connection. Later, a large number of universities and research institutes from the economy to the system is connected, so that at the end of over 600 different institutions were involved. Was founded in 1991 by the participants in the JUNET JUNET Association.

Through the WIDE project and the first commercial Internet service provider IIJ and Japan Telecom in the early 1990s spread the TCP / IP-based Internet in Japan. At the time of its tenth anniversary in March 1994, therefore, the obsolete viewed JUNET was turned off.

As the domain name in the e- mail addresses was in JUNET initially. Junet used, for example, u - tokyo.junet for the University of Tokyo, and soon after but this was changed to the. Jp domain.