Florida Anesthesia Computer and Engineering Team
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University of Florida, 1996
The federal government through the National Science Foundation subsidizes the Internet. Academic institutions and commercial parties also bear some of the cost to make an Internet connection available to their faculty, students, and employees. Nowadays, Internet connection for home use are becoming available from commercial providers. It should not come as a surprise in the current climate of cost containment that the federal subsidies are being reduced, if not phased out, and that private industry replaces this financial void such as CompuServe and America OnLine. The other side of the coin is that commercialization will increase on the Internet.
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