Does anyone remember the NSF-sponsored regional networks? Can you fix this table--this is off the top of my head so I am missing a few networks.

Can I buy a vowel? Name Region NOC was or is at Now SURAnet Southeast US Univ MD BBN SER NEARnet Northeast US MIT? BBN NER ^^^^BBN PREPnet Pennsylvania PSC merged w/ CICnet BARRnet Bay Area Stanford? Berkeley? BBN WR ^SU then E. Bayshore Rd., Palo Alto CERFnet? South Calif SDSC TCG Yes, CA Educational and Research Foundation network NOC was at General Atomics facility near UCSD CICnet Midwest ? merged w/ PREPnet ^was UMich, then OSU Merit Michigan U Mich JvNCnet Middle states Princeton bought by Verio ^JvNC Supercomputer Center, then Princeton NYSERnet New York ? ^NOC provided by contract ISP (now Sprint) THEnet Texas U Texas still independent MIDnet Midwest ? bought by Global Inet WestNet mid SW ? ? NorthWestNet Northwest U Wash still independent Those are the "original" thirteen. Then there were OARnet, NetIllinois, PSCnet, SDSCnet, NCSAnet, UCAR, CSNET, cypressnet, several DoD research nets and the FIXes ... --Kent