Japan University NETwork (JUNET) was a computer network established by three universities,

Tokyo University , abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project by ...

Tokyo Institute of Technology is a national research university located in Greater Tokyo Area, Japan. Tokyo Tech is the largest institution for higher education in Japan dedicated to science and technology, one of first five Designated National University and selected as ...

and

Keio University , mottoeng = The pen is mightier than the sword , type = Private research coeducational higher education institution , established = 1858 , founder = Yukichi Fukuzawa , endowmen ...

in October 1984 for test and research purposes. At its height it connected 700 machines. Comparable to the model of the American

Usenet Usenet () is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from the general-purpose Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979, and it was ...

, it employed a

UUCP UUCP is an acronym of Unix-to-Unix Copy. The term generally refers to a suite of computer programs and protocols allowing remote execution of commands and transfer of files, email and netnews between computers. A command named is one of the prog ...

implementation over telephone line. JUNET played an important role in the development of the

Internet The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, pub ...

in Japan. It was made obsolete with the development and growing popularity of the

WIDE Project The WIDE Project (Widely Integrated Distributed Environment) is an Internet project in Japan founded by Keio University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and The University of Tokyo that was started in 1985. It runs a major backbone of the Japane ...

, and was discontinued in October 1994.

Size and Growth of the Network

JUNET grew from a few organizations in 1984 to over 250 nodes in 87 organizations by July 1987.Jun Murai and Akira Kato, Researches in network development of JUNET, Proceedings of the ACM workshop on Frontiers in computer communications technology, 1987

References

External links

WIDE:About WIDE:History
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