"People who put Romania on the internet"

"The first time Romania connected to the Internet was in 1993. At the same time, the ".ro" domain is well-known throughout the world. The first website and the World Wide Web (www) were born 20 years ago, in August 1991. Romania required an additional two years to join the network.

It was, of course, the computer in the beginning. Romania was one of the top ten countries in the world with its own computers, despite the fact that it sounds incredible now. Professor Victor Toma has been designing the computer with electronic tubes at the Institute of Atomic Physics from 1953. The first Romanian computer using germanium transistors is put into service in 1964, after 11 years of work. Only a few countries in the world at the time could claim of comparable results: the United States, Japan, Germany, Austria, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, the Soviet Union, Italy, and Denmark.

Subsequently, on July 15, 1970, the Central Institute of Informatics was established - today called the National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics (ICI) - the institution that took the first steps in the field of computer networks and the first entity in Romania connected to the Internet. ”