History
The first high speed backbone was created by the National Science Foundation in 1987. It was called the NSFNET, and was a T1 line that connected 170 smaller networks together. The following year, IBM, MCI and Merit would create a T3 backbone. In the early days of the Internet, backbone providers exchanged their traffic at government-sponsored network access points, until the government privatized the Internet, and then transferred the NAPs to commercial providers.
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