Internet Day

On 29 April 2016 the “Italian” Internet celebrated its thirty years old: the backstage, the most important images and e the main characters in a short video produced by the Registro

29 April is the Italian Internet Day, in which we celebrate the Net: Italy connected (through the CNUCE-CNR - National University Centre of Electronic Calculation of Pisa) to the United States via Internet thirty years ago (30 April 1986). The Premier, for the occasion, will be present at the CNR (Italian National Research Council) Research Campus of Pisa to celebrate the thirthy “virtual” candles with the protagonists of yesterday and today. In this anniversary, researchers and scientists of the historical begininning of the first connection between Italy and Arpanet (Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork) will be present. With them, today’s researchers and scientists,of the new streets of the Net and of the Internet of the future.

On 30 April 1986 the CNUCE (National University Centre of Electronic Calculation) of the CNR of Pisa connected to the United States via internet, marking an important moment for our country. Bob Khan, after having experimented with TCP/IP protocol in the various American organizations already connected via Arpanet, decided to extend its application to European research institutes as well. In Italy, CNUCE was selected because of its researchers’ pioneering role in networking and for its international visibility.