The National Science Foundation Network was a program of coordinated, evolving projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation from 1985 to 1995 to promote advanced research and education networ
NSF's three-tiered network architecture
NSFNET Traffic 1991, NSFNET backbone nodes are shown at the top, regional networks below, traffic volume is depicted from purple (zero bytes) to white (100 billion bytes), visualization by NCSA using traffic data provided by the Merit Network.
Packet Traffic on the NSFNET Backbone, January 1988 to June 1994
New network architecture, c. 1995
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…Guide to the Internet to help users of the NSFNET understand its capabilities. The Hitchhiker's Guide became one of the first help manuals for the Internet. As regional networks grew the 56 kbit/s NSFNET backbone experienced rapid increases in network traffic and became seriously congested. In June 1987…
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This NeXT Computer was used by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN and became the world's first Web server.
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