7 CYBERSECURITY OF POLAND
Digital society in Poland
The history of the Internet in Poland is not very long compared to its history in Western European countries. The breakthrough date for establishing Internet in Poland was November 19, 1990, when the US Department of Defense gave the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences the first Polish IP number, which made it possible to connect their 255 computers to the Internet (Instytut Fizyki Jądrowej PAN, 2019). Officially, Poland gained access to the Internet in December 1991. At that time, the Internet speed reached less than 10 KB/s and only a few companies and institutions used it (today Internet speed is up to 1 GB/s). ...
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