NSFNET

The NSF agreed to build the backbone network, to be called NSFNET.

Where Wizards Stay Up Late Katie Hafner 2001

The NSF agreed to build the backbone network, to be called NSFNET.

Where Wizards Stay Up Late Katie Hafner 2001

As you know, the NSFNET was a research and educational network, connecting research and educational institutions with each other, with the federal agencies for whom the research was being done, and, with the approval of the NSF, such for-profit institutions who provided expertise, products, and services in support of that research.

Statement Before The Subcommittee On Basic Research, House Science Committee 1997

Among other things, the study details the now well-known role of the U.S. government in developing the ARPANET and the NSFNET for over three decades before it became available commercially as the Internet.

William Lazonick: Nine Government Investments That Made Us an Industrial Economic Leader William Lazonick 2011

This fight became unavoidable the day NSFNET was decommissioned.

Firedoglake » The Fight for Internet Freedom 2006

The ARPANET itself, which cost ARPA $14 million a year to run, looked arthritic next to the higher-speed NSFNET.

Where Wizards Stay Up Late Katie Hafner 2001

As the 1990s approached, the number of computers in the world that were connected to one another via the NSFNET far outstripped the number of computers connected to one another via the ARPANET.

Where Wizards Stay Up Late Katie Hafner 2001

The NSFNET and the regional networks it had spawned became the principal backbone.

Where Wizards Stay Up Late Katie Hafner 2001

Each had the exclusive franchise in that region to connect to the NSFNET backbone.

Where Wizards Stay Up Late Katie Hafner 2001

Users now had a choice between connecting to the ARPANET or to the NSFNET backbone.

Where Wizards Stay Up Late Katie Hafner 2001