Pisa

Pisa

Pisa, site of the first chair of Information Sciences in Italy, thanks to its extensive scientific community made up of universities, CNR and schools of excellence, is the center from which the Italian Internet spread, the technology that has revolutionized more than any other else our habits, our customs and our lives.

On the world chessboard, where the Internet finally prevailed, the CNUCE Institute of the CNR of Pisa played an important role, with pioneering and fascinating projects. The first Italian connection to the Internet, on April 30, 1986, was only the last meter of an exciting race towards innovation and the future.

Torre di Pisa

The projects

La Timeline

From 1970 to first 90th, twenty year of projects about computers network to CNUCE.

The (reconstructed) archive of CNUCE

A good part of the history of the Italian Network and IT was lost or mislaid in the change of location of the area. After long and patient research involving the participants in the life of the Institute in those years, it was possible to reconstruct an archive with the most significant administrative documents of the time.

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Documents

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Letters

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People

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