Internet in the United States Internet in the United States The Internet in the United States grew out of the ARPANET, a network sponsored by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense during the 1960s. The Internet in the United States in turn provided the foundation for the worldwide Internet of today. Internet access in the United States is largely provided by the private sector and is available in a variety of forms, using a variety of technologies, at a wide range of speeds and costs. In 2015, 97.5% of Americans were using the Internet, which ranks the U.S. 4th out
SDF Public Access Unix System on DEC Alpha- and AMD Opteron-powered hardware) as well as a TWENEX system running the Panda Distribution TOPS-20 MONITOR 7.1, and a Symbolics Genera system. Besides offering free Unix shell access and web hosting to its users, SDF provides increasingly rare services such as dial-up internet access and Gopher hosting. SDF is one of very few organizations in the world still actively promoting the gopher protocol, an alternate protocol that existed at the introduction of the modern worldwide web. The system contains thousands of programs and utilities, including a command-line BBS called BBOARD, a chat program called COMMODE, email programs,