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A wide-area network developed under the auspices of the National Science Foundation (NSF). NSFnet replaced ARPANET as the main government network linking universities and research facilities. In 1995, the NSF implemented a new backbone called very high-speed Backbone Network Service (vBNS), which serves as a testing ground for the next generation of internet technologies.
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Who created the NSFNET?
the national science foundation,
What did NSFnet handle on the internet until 1995?
Traffic
Full form of nsfnet?
National Science Foundation Network
The ban against commercial use of the NSFnet was lifted in?
1992
When was ATM installed on NSFNET?
What is the antonmym of atm? The antonmyn is automatic teller machine
What is the main telecommunications line through the network connecting the major router sites across the country?
NSFNET
What is the origin of Internet?
The internet started as a military and academic application to allow the transfer of data between bases and universities. It was called ARPANET. ARPANET was expanded upon and grew into the NSFNET project in the early 1980s. From there, NSFNET grew into a major portion of the backbone of the internet.
When was the internet used first?
On January 1, 1983 (this is technically the birth of the Internet), when the United States' National Science Foundation (NSF)constructed a university network backbone that would later become the NSFNet.
When was the internet available after ARPAnet?
ARPANET stands for the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. It went live in the year 1969 and was superseded by NSFNET in 1990.
Where are the locations of the five original NSF-financed supercomputers?
The Cornell Theory Center at Cornell University, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center at Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh, the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California San Diego, and the John von Neumann Center at Princeton.
Could people get internet in their homes in 1992?
Yes. That's about the year when commercial internet access became a reality. Although the Internet's underlying infrastructure (and protocols) had been developing since the 1960's - what most people recognize today as the "Internet" evolved in the late 80's and the early 90's through internet applications such as: e-mail, gopher, usenet, WAIS and eventually the "browser". In the late 80's and the early 90's access to the Internet (or more correctly the public portion of the NSFnet) was available via universities (and certain companies that worked closely with local universities or government agencies). At that time, if you wanted to access the internet from home, you could do so by dialing into your college or company network via a PC or a terminal and a modem. Around 1992 NSF (the National Science Foundation) which ran the Internet, decided to allow for commercial access to this network (perhaps the turning point in the popularization of the Internet) and thus the first ISP's were born (mostly as small local public bulletin boards with limited access to certain internet functions). So yes; in 1992 ordinary folks could also access the internet from home by paying a fee and dialing up to one of these commercial bulletin boards.
When were Americans first allowed to use the Internet?
The internet as we now know it is generally considered to have started with ARPANET, a network developed under funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the US Department of Defense which started operation in 1969. The term "internet" was first used in December 1974 when Vinton Cerf, Yogen Dalal, and Carl Sunshine, used the term internet as a shorthand for internetworking in RFC 675 (subsequent RFCs continued to use the term). In 1982, the Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) was standardized, which permitted worldwide proliferation of interconnected networks. TCP/IP network access expanded again in 1986 when the National Science Foundation Network (NSFNet) provided access to supercomputer sites in the United States for researchers. In 1989, the first ISPs were established in Australia and the United States. Around Christmas of 1990, the first version of a browser - named WorldWideWeb (guess where that prefix www you see in so many URLs comes from...) and using HTTP 0.9 and HTML was put into operation by Tim Berners-Lee. At that point most of what we now think of as the internet was fully established although it took until the mid-1990's to become ubiquitous.Depending on where you want to draw the line, "Americans" were first allowed to use the "internet" in 1969, 1974, 1982, 1989, 1990, or ~1994.
