A technical view of the value of the NSF since the 60s. Was honored to see much of the progress first hand.
In Debt to the NSF By Vinton G. Cerf
Communications of the ACM, April 2019, Vol. 62 No. 4, Page 5 10.1145/3313989
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launched the ARPANET project in 1968 and the Internet project in 1973.
In 1980, the National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored the development of CSNETa to connect a number of computer science departments together that had not already been connected to the ARPANET. Using a mix of dial-up phone connections, public X.25 packet network services, and access to the ARPANET, the CSNET was the programmatic forerunner of the National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET). .... "
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