No credit for Uncle Sam in creating Net? Vint Cerf disagrees - CNET: "The NSF got very involved in 1985 and this led to the design and implementation and subsequent expansion of the NSFNET that became a major backbone for academic access to the Internet. NSF also sponsored more than a dozen intermediate level regional networks.
By 1986, router companies such as Cisco and Proteon were selling to academia and the military and to USG-sponsored networking users.
By 1989, three commercial Internet service providers were in operation: UUNET, PSINET, and CERFNET.
By 1992, the Boucher Bill make it permissible to carry commercial traffic on the U.S. government-sponsored backbones (notably NSFNET; ARPANET had been retired as of 1990).
About that same time, Tim Berners-Lees' development of the World Wide Web protocols at CERN, 1989-1991, had gotten the attention of Marc Andreesen and Eric Bina at the National Center for Supercomputer Applications leading the development of the graphical MOSAIC browser that led Jim Clark (founder of Silicon Graphics) to start Netscape Communications with Marc.
NSF retired the NSFNET in 1995" 'via Blog this'
No comments:
Post a Comment