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The NSFNET Decommissioning

     The National Science Foundation shuts down the NSFNET backbone, officially handing over the internet’s infrastructure to commercial network providers. The internet is no longer a government project; it is a private enterprise.

    Part of the 16 Internet Evolution Facts: The 1995 Edition archive. HistoricallyVerified

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    A heavy, energy-intensive image file was intentionally omitted from this space. It has been replaced with semantic text to protect the digital ecosystem from unnecessary infrastructure noise.

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    Discussion:
    William Hill
    The signal to noise ratio on the internet requires spaces like this.
    Frank Jackson
    This is exactly why we need to build a clean web today.
    Samuel Brown
    Semantic layouts and plain text will always outlive complex modern frameworks.

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