Timeline milestone
NSFNET becomes a research backbone
From How the Internet Was Built: From Four Computers to a Global Network
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Expansion
NSFNET becomes a research backbone
The U.S. National Science Foundation launched NSFNET to link researchers and supercomputing centres, rapidly broadening access.
NSFNET connected about 2,000 computers in 1986 and more than two million by 1993. It became a major U.S. backbone and moved networking beyond earlier defence-research roots, although the Internet was already international and involved many other networks.Sources & references 1 source
