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Doug Van Houweling: Building the NSFNet

By Charles Severance

By Charles Severance on
February 27, 2014

In this Episode

Author Charles Severance speaks with Doug Van Houweling about how the NSFNet went from connecting a few supercomputers to becoming "the Internet."

From Computer's Issue 4, Vol 47 - April 2014


Charles Severance

About Charles Severance

Charles Severance is a clinical associate professor and teaches in the School of Information at the University of Michigan, and served as Computer's multimedia editor until 2018. Follow him on Twitter @drchuck or contact him at csev@umich.edu.

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