DEMOS was established in 1989 in Moscow as a programmers' cooperative, which included employees of the
Kurchatov Institute. For the first few months, the cooperative was called "Interface"; then it was renamed in honor of the
DEMOS operating system. In 1990, DEMOS, in cooperation with the scientific network
Relkom, registered a
top-level domain . This domain become the starting point for development of the
Russian segment of the Internet - RUnet. ==See also==