 While developed countries with technological infrastructures were joining the Internet, developing countries began to experience a digital divide separating them from the Internet.On an essentially continental basis, they are building organizations for Internet resource administration and sharing operational experience, as more and more transmission facilities go into place.At the beginning of the 1990s, African countries relied upon X.25 IPSS and 2400 baud modem UUCP links for international and internetwork computer communications.