Development of services and infrastructure for data acquisition and information exchange

Focusing on the local solutions used by the institutions organizing the INFOBAZY (Infobases) conference, we briefly examine the development of IT infrastructure for science in Poland, including resources, networks and a high performance supercomputer centre. This development is presented from the perspective of the last twenty years - although the first INFOBAZY conference was organized in 1997, the IT infrastructure has been developed since 1991, when the first modern network server was installed in Warsaw. This presentation demonstrates both the enormous progress in the field and the state of the art today.