Fuzzball routers were the first modern routers on the Internet. A router ('rautər in the USA 'rutər in the UK and Ireland, or either pronunciation in Australia and Canada is a Computer whose software and hardware are usually The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks They were DEC LSI-11 computers loaded with router software written by David L. Mills (of the University of Delaware). Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering American company in the Computer industry The PDP-11 was a series of 16-bit Minicomputers sold by Digital Equipment Corp David L Mills (born June 3, 1938) was the first chairman of the Internet Architecture Task Force. The University of Delaware ( UD) is the largest University in the U The name "Fuzzball" was the colloquialism for Mills' routing software. A colloquialism is an expression not used in formal speech, writing or Paralinguistics. About fifty of them were deployed worldwide in the early 1980s on the first 56kb/sec NSFnet to test many of the Internet's first protocols. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. The National Science Foundation Network ( NSFNET) was a major part of early 1990s Internet backbone. The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks A few are still active on the internet today.
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