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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 1479832, member: 405"]
Not to quibble, but the NSF Net (the primary Internet backbone at the time) first interconnected to commercial networks in 1992, and the original Internet backbone was not fully available to commercial traffic until the spring of 1995.

"In 1992, the U.S. Congress passed the Scientific and Advanced-Technology Act, [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_42_of_the_United_States_Code']42 U.S.C.[/URL][URL='http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/1862(g).html']§ 1862(g)[/URL], which allowed NSF to support access by the research and education communities to computer networks which were not used exclusively for research and education purposes, thus permitting NSFNET to interconnect with commercial networks.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#cite_note-ogc-00-33r_p6-51'][51][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#cite_note-NSFAUPNote1-52'][52][/URL] ...  The [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Internet_eXchange']Commercial Internet eXchange[/URL] (CIX), [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAE-East']Metropolitan Area Exchanges[/URL] (MAEs), and later [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Access_Point']Network Access Points[/URL] (NAPs) were becoming the primary interconnections between many networks. The final restrictions on carrying commercial traffic ended on April 30, 1995 when the National Science Foundation ended its sponsorship of the NSFNET Backbone Service and the service ended.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#cite_note-54'][54][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#cite_note-55'][55][/URL]"
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