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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. In 1988, NSFnet was upgraded from its original 56 Kbps lines to T1 circuits. By the early 1990s, it was using a T3 line that served as the primary Internet backbone until 1995, when the Net became commercialized. See ARPAnet and Internet.

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Entre 1989 y 1994 America Latina ya estaba conectada por TCP/IP (Internet) con NSFNET (National Science Foundation Network) (Dholakia, et al., 2003; Garay, 1999; Islas Carmona, 2011), mas este hecho no se puede confundir con una apropiacion tecnologica.

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Finally in 1994 the centralized routing protocols or NSFNet Internet Backbone was replaced by a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) which allowed direct communications between computers without having to go through the central system.

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then operated by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as NSFNET. (11)

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It was later popularized by the United States National Science Foundation (NSFNET), the first nationwide educational network linking universities and academic research establishments.

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development and maintenance of the core Internet backbone (NSFnet).

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