Dennis Jennings, in his introduction, refers to this as the "first Internet Reunion Club session", and the webinar was followed by an (off the record) social. In the webinar, amongst other historic details, there is discussion about the tensions between defense, academic, and commercial interests, and the haphazard implementation of the AUP - acceptable use policy, in those early days. [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-6> On *Friday December 31 2021*, in the sixth instalment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘*12 Days of Streams <https://isoc.live/?s=%2312streams>*‘ annual highlights, we feature *Internet 2 <https://internet2.edu/>*'s '*Internet History Webinar: How the US NSFNET Regional Academic Networks Evolved to Become the Global Internet (1985 — 1995) <https://internet2.edu/internet2-internet-history-webinar/>*' from September 14 2021. The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) NSFNET Program (partially) funded a range of (academic) regional networks1, starting in 1985/86. Over a relatively short period of time, the regional networks developed their customer base and funding models and became Internet service providers (ISPs). Connections to the Federal Internet Exchange(s) (FIXs) and the Commercial Internet eXchange(s) (CIXs) were developed, and some of the regional networks evolved to become global ISPs. *WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION* *Ana Hunsinger*, Vice President, Community Engagement, Internet2 *Dennis Jennings*, former First Program Director for Networking, NSF *PANEL* *Glenn Ricart*, SURAnet *Elise Gerich*, NSFNET National Backbone *Susan Estrada*, CERFnet *DISCUSSANT Guy Almes*, Sesquinet *MODERATOR Steve Wolff*, NSF Networking Division Director (1986-1995) *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-6 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-6> *(Open captions) *TWITTER #12Streams <http://bit.ly/2t12HX2J> #i2online @Internet2 @gricart #SURAnet @EliseGerich #NSFNET Susan Estrada #CERFnet Steve Wolff #InternetHistory* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/12streams2021-6 <https://archive.org/details/12streams2021-6>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14945/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -