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Exactly 30 years ago, on 15 June 1993, the CESNET academic computer network was launched. At that time it connected ten Czech and Moravian university towns at a speed of 19.2 kbit/s, the main Prague-Brno route boasted 64 kbit/s. It was a major milestone in the introduction of the Internet to the Czech Republic. Today, the CESNET network has a transmission capacity of hundreds of gigabits per second, 10 million times faster than 30 years ago. Read more here.