{"id":145005,"date":"2022-06-16T11:43:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T16:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tecreview.tec.mx\/?p=145005"},"modified":"2025-01-13T16:10:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T22:10:33","slug":"mexico-first-internet-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/tech\/mexico-first-internet-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"The day Mexico connected to the Internet for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every <strong>May 17th<\/strong> since 2006, <strong>World Internet Day<\/strong> celebrates a revolutionary invention that transformed the way we communicate and access an impressive amount of information at a speed not seen before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mexico first connected to the Internet 34 years ago, thanks to <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tecreview.tec.mx\/tag\/tec-de-monterrey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Tecnol\u00f3gico de Monterrey<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong> In October 1988, a group of graduates was responsible for connecting the Monterrey campus with the world for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They tell us the story of this great milestone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><picture>\r\n                <source srcset=\"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/06\/first-mexican-internet-connection.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\">\r\n                <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/06\/first-mexican-internet-connection.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-166938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/06\/first-mexican-internet-connection.jpg 750w, https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/06\/first-mexican-internet-connection-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>\r\n            <\/picture><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This picture from 1986 shows members of various areas of the Computer Science Division at the Tec\u2019s Monterrey Campus Computing Center. (Courtesy: Daniel Trujillo \/ Tec Review: The Book)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The history of the first Internet connection in Mexico<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in those days, Ramiro Flores, Daniel Trujillo, David Trevi\u00f1o, and Hugo Garc\u00eda described themselves as just \u201ca bunch of kids.\u201d They had just graduated from the Tec when they were able to \u201cexperiment\u201d with a <strong>new technology. <\/strong>They never imagined the impact they would have in Mexico and Latin America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>These young engineers were part of the IT management team on Monterrey campus at that time<\/strong>. One of the institution\u2019s goals was to go further toward achieving true collaboration and exchange with other higher education and research institutions outside the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It all started in <strong>1986<\/strong>, when the Monterrey campus joined the Education Communication (Educom) consortium of universities and research institutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to this, they connected to <strong>the international cooperative academic network BITNET (Because It\u2019s Time NETwork) <\/strong>and linked to the closest node, <strong>the University of Texas<\/strong>, through a private telephone line and modems, beginning a close relationship between the two institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That was the first encounter both the group and the Tec had with the Internet: a network that allowed them to reach the rest of its 26 campuses and establish communication with higher education institutions abroad. <strong>BITNET not only sent and received emails, but it also offered discussion lists and access to libraries.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A network called THENET<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1988 at the University of Texas, Daniel Trujillo and David Trevi\u00f1o heard about <strong>the network called THENET (Texas Higher Education NETwork), or the Internet. <\/strong>In addition to email, it offered services such as a remote terminal connection and file transfer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cIt seemed very important for the academic world,\u201d<\/strong> said Hugo Garc\u00eda. The team started to work, but it was not an easy road. At that time, telecommunications and infrastructure were very limited in Mexico. Everything was analog, and it was almost impossible to import computer equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However<strong>, <\/strong>from the beginning<strong>, the Tec understood the importance of connecting to THENET and investing in it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><picture>\r\n                <source srcset=\"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/06\/first-internet-connection.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\">\r\n                <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/06\/first-internet-connection.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-166939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/06\/first-internet-connection.jpg 750w, https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/06\/first-internet-connection-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>\r\n            <\/picture><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Daniel Trujillo, one of the engineers on the IT management team at the Monterrey campus who worked on the first Internet connection.\u00a0 (Courtesy: Rafael Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez \/ Tec Review: The Book)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>An academic network was born<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1988, after months of negotiations, training, installations, and other preparations, they achieved the first Internet connection between the Monterrey campus and the University of Texas Medical School in San Antonio. That was on October 12, 1988. This opened the door to great opportunities in Mexico and helped establish close relationships with other universities. With connection to THENET, the Monterrey campus was able to obtain access to more than 30,000 nodes around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The technology drew national attention. Mexico\u2019s President Carlos Salinas de Gortari visited the Monterrey campus and witnessed the group connecting to Harvard University to access his doctoral thesis, Daniel Trujillo recalled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><picture>\r\n                <source srcset=\"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/06\/first-mexican-internet-connection-2-rotated.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\">\r\n                <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/06\/first-mexican-internet-connection-2-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-166940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/06\/first-mexican-internet-connection-2-rotated.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/06\/first-mexican-internet-connection-2-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\r\n            <\/picture><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This MicroVAX II was the first name server for the .mx domain, the first router and mail server. (Courtesy: Daniel Trujillo \/ Tec Review: The Book)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Other campuses quickly became interested in participating in THENET. Hugo Garc\u00eda, who was in charge of making this collaboration model spread beyond the system, explains that the first connection outside of the Tec took place at the UNAM. Later, ITESO and the University of Guadalajara joined\u2026 and the rest is history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe never imagined that the Internet would have the impact it has today. It all started as an educational effort,\u201d explains Daniel Trujillo. \u201cWe were lucky to be the pioneers, to do something that was unattainable for many at that time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On World Internet Day, we remember that the first connection to this network was made by Tec de Monterrey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":156851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-145005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-technology"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How Mexico connected to the Internet for the first time | 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