A Guide To
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Internet Service Providers

 

1988

2006

NSF Back Bone

Multiple Backbone Providers

5 Regional network Service Providers

Tens of Thousands of ISPs

Only selected organisations could be an ISP

Anyone with a computer can become an ISP

High Speed access limited and expensive

High Speed Access becoming cheap and available to residential users and business users alike using DSL and Cable modems

Figure 17
Table of Internet services available in 1998[1] vs those available today (2006)
[Source: Carnegie Mellon University].


[1] The Date that the CERT was founded at Carnegie Mellon University

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