The Internet is a global network system that turns the world into a "global village."

A century ago, people in different parts of the world seemed unable to communicate with each other. At that time, radio was the focus of attention of people. The phone was used very rarely. Similar lines made communication difficult. For this reason, in comparison with modern broadband, the quality of the connection was much worse.

Research on the creation of the computer-information network Internet began in the USA from the 60s of the last century. In 1962, the staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology S. Liklider put forward the idea of ​​creating a connection to a remote computer, and in 1961 L. Baytsok proposed the theory of packet switching. In 1965, L. Robert and T. Merville used regular telephone communications between two TX-2 and Q-32 computers located in Massachusetts and California. This experience has shown the inefficiency of using telephone communications in creating computer networks and the advantages of packet switching theory.

In 1969, Roberts, invited to the Department of Advanced Studies of the US Department of Defense, developed a plan to create the first computer network, which is considered the forerunner of the modern Internet.

With ARPANET, Internet technology has become technology available to millions of users around the world. Another interesting fact about the Internet is that it has no inventor. This innovation, attracted by technology enthusiasts with great enthusiasm, has become a collective project for the whole world.

Over time, the Internet has expanded. Search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing were considered significant improvements to the Internet’s user base.

Yahoo! was founded in 1994 and has become an important event in the history of the Internet.

Four years later, the biggest milestone in Internet history began. Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. This laid the foundations of the modern Internet.

The creation of the Internet in the Republic of Azerbaijan began with the establishment of a connection by EARN (European Academic & Research Network - European Research Network) at the Institute of Information Technology of ANAS.

In Azerbaijan, for the first time in 1991, an e-mail service was created, which joined the international network of Sovam Teleport. This postal service provided ANAS institutes and organizations, many state enterprises, such as Sovam teleport, EARN, BİTNET, RELCOM, İASNET and others, with the use of an international computer network.

The AzScienceNet network was created in 1991 based on TCP / IP technology, which provides access to the international Internet network connecting the ANAS Presidium building and the Institute of Information Technology's local networks.

In 1995, the second Azerbaijani AzScienceNet network node was created in the main building of ANAS. As a result of a direct telephone connection between nodes I and II, a computer network was launched with the largest infrastructure in the country.

The first website in the Republic of Azerbaijan was created in 1995 at the Institute of Information Technology of ANAS under the name www.ab.az and is hosted on AzScienceNet servers.

The site www.science.az (www.elm.az, www.nauka.az) was updated in accordance with the scale, content and infrastructure of the information space covering www.ab.az and was launched on September 24, 2003.

The portal www.science.az provides the integration of Azerbaijani science into the international world, the exchange of knowledge, information, the exchange of scientific achievements, scientific, scientific, pedagogical, scientific and technical contacts of our scientists working in various fields with foreign colleagues. The portal works in Azerbaijani, Russian and English.

At the end of 2011, a DATA-center (data-center) was created on the basis of the AzScienceNet network to solve complex problems requiring strategically important computing and memory resources in ANAS institutions and organizations.