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Fuzzball routers were the first modern router
Router

A router is a Computer network device whose software and hardware are usually tailored to the tasks of routing and forwarding information. For example, on the Internet, information is directed to various paths by routers....
s on the Internet
Internet

The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers, enabling users to share information along multiple channels. Typically, a computer that connects to the Internet can access information from a vast array of available server and other computers by moving information from them to the computer's local memory....
. They were DEC
Digital Equipment Corporation

Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering United States company in the computer industry. It is often referred to within the computing industry as DEC ....
 LSI-11 computers loaded with router software written by David L. Mills
David L. Mills

David L. Mills was the first chairman of the Internet Architecture Task Force. He invented the Network Time Protocol, the fuzzball router, the Exterior Gateway Protocol, and had the first File Transfer Protocol implementation....
 (of the University of Delaware
University of Delaware

The University of Delaware is the largest university in the U.S. state of Delaware. The main campus is located in Newark, Delaware, with satellite campuses in Dover, Delaware, Wilmington, Delaware, Lewes, Delaware and Georgetown, Delaware....
). The name "Fuzzball" was the colloquialism
Colloquialism

A colloquialism is an expression not used in formal Speech communication, writing or paralinguistics. Colloquialisms are also sometimes referred to collectively as "colloquial language"....
 for Mills' routing software. About fifty of them were deployed worldwide in the early 1980s on the first 56kb/sec NSFnet
NSFNet

The National Science Foundation Network was a major part of early 1990s Internet backbone....
 to test many of the Internet
Internet

The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers, enabling users to share information along multiple channels. Typically, a computer that connects to the Internet can access information from a vast array of available server and other computers by moving information from them to the computer's local memory....
's first protocols. A few are still active on the internet today.

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Fuzzball routers were the first modern router
Router

A router is a Computer network device whose software and hardware are usually tailored to the tasks of routing and forwarding information. For example, on the Internet, information is directed to various paths by routers....
s on the Internet
Internet

The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers, enabling users to share information along multiple channels. Typically, a computer that connects to the Internet can access information from a vast array of available server and other computers by moving information from them to the computer's local memory....
. They were DEC
Digital Equipment Corporation

Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering United States company in the computer industry. It is often referred to within the computing industry as DEC ....
 LSI-11 computers loaded with router software written by David L. Mills
David L. Mills

David L. Mills was the first chairman of the Internet Architecture Task Force. He invented the Network Time Protocol, the fuzzball router, the Exterior Gateway Protocol, and had the first File Transfer Protocol implementation....
 (of the University of Delaware
University of Delaware

The University of Delaware is the largest university in the U.S. state of Delaware. The main campus is located in Newark, Delaware, with satellite campuses in Dover, Delaware, Wilmington, Delaware, Lewes, Delaware and Georgetown, Delaware....
). The name "Fuzzball" was the colloquialism
Colloquialism

A colloquialism is an expression not used in formal Speech communication, writing or paralinguistics. Colloquialisms are also sometimes referred to collectively as "colloquial language"....
 for Mills' routing software. About fifty of them were deployed worldwide in the early 1980s on the first 56kb/sec NSFnet
NSFNet

The National Science Foundation Network was a major part of early 1990s Internet backbone....
 to test many of the Internet
Internet

The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers, enabling users to share information along multiple channels. Typically, a computer that connects to the Internet can access information from a vast array of available server and other computers by moving information from them to the computer's local memory....
's first protocols. A few are still active on the internet today.

Sources: