 At the same time, the word "Volapük" ("Волапюк/Воляпюк" "Volapyuk/Volyapyuk" in Russian) itself sounds funny to Russian ears, so the name stuck.The term was popularized by its use in the first Soviet commercially available UUCP and TCP/IP network, RELCOM (a typical networking software package included Cyrillic KOI-8 to "Volapuk" transcoding utilities called "tovol" and "fromvol", originally implemented by Vadim Antonov), making it the likely origin of the usage of "Volapuk" as applied to Cyrillic encoding.Volapuk and Translit have been in use since the early days of the Internet to write e-mail messages and other texts in Russian where the support of Cyrillic fonts was limited