NSF and NSFnet

NSF and NSFnet definition - hacker
A U.S. government agency that has funded the development of a cross-country backbone network, as well as regional networks designed to connect scientists over the Internet, thereby taking on the term NSFnet.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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