Commercial firms built their own internet network infrastructure as the internet commercialized, and NSF shut down the NSFNET backbone in 1995.

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"Commercial firms built their own internet network infrastructure as the internet commercialized, and NSF shut down the NSFNET backbone in 1995."

NSF describes commercial firms constructing their own network infrastructure and the rapid expansion of commercial internet services culminating in the shutdown of the NSFNET backbone in 1995. [Year inferred: 2026, based on the current NSF history-page source.]

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Source title Birth of the Commercial Internet - NSF Impacts

Source authors U.S. National Science Foundation

Source year 2026

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