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NSFnet

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NSFnet
(National Science Foundation NETwork) The network funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, which linked five supercomputer sites across the country in the mid-1980s. Universities were also allowed to connect to it. In 1988, it was upgraded from its original 56 Kbps lines to T1 circuits. By the early 1990s, NSFnet was using a T3 backbone and served as the primary Internet backbone until 1995, when the Net became commercialized. See ARPAnet.
NSFNET - National Science Foundation Network


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Combined with the communications power of TCP/IP, this NSFNet boosted the number of interconnected computers to critical mass.
1987: NSFnet A network catering to academic institutions and military researchers was launched by the US National Science Foundation in 1987.
The NSFNet Backbone Service is the fastest and most powerful of the university, government and commercial networks known collectively as the Internet.
 
 
 
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