When we started the activity to build the National Science Foundation Network, or NSFNET, we had a clear understanding that the money that the federal government was going to be able to spend on the network wouldn’t be adequate to do the job that the community required.
Douglas van Houweling
One of the things that we have discovered over and over again, as we build networks that move electrons around and photons around, is that human beings use those to connect with one another. We think we’re connecting computers together, it turns out we’re connecting human beings together.