Wanne daga cikin kungiyoyi masu zuwa ba su taimaka wajen bunkasa cibiyar sadarwa ta farko ba: Jihar Michigan, East Lansing, ko Cibiyar Kimiyya ta Kasa? Bisa ga tambayar da ta gabata, ka rubuta mahallin da ke ɗauke da amsar. Zai iya zama jumla 1 - 20. Abubuwan da ke ciki:
Merit Network, Inc., wani kamfani mai zaman kansa ba tare da riba ba wanda jami'o'in jama'a na Michigan ke gudanarwa, an kafa shi ne a 1966 a matsayin Michigan Educational Research Information Triad don bincika hanyoyin sadarwar kwamfuta tsakanin jami'o'in jama'a uku na Michigan a matsayin hanyar taimakawa ci gaban ilimi da tattalin arzikin jihar. Tare da tallafi na farko daga Jihar Michigan da National Science Foundation (NSF), an fara nuna cibiyar sadarwar da aka sauya a watan Disamba na 1971 lokacin da aka haɗu da haɗin gwiwar mai watsa shiri tsakanin tsarin kwamfutar IBM a Jami'ar Michigan a Ann Arbor da Jami'ar Jihar Wayne a Detroit. A watan Oktoba 1972 haɗi zuwa CDC mainframe a Jami'ar Jihar Michigan a Gabashin Lansing ya kammala triad. A cikin shekaru da yawa masu zuwa ban da rundunar da za ta dauki bakuncin haɗin haɗin yanar gizo an inganta cibiyar sadarwar don tallafawa haɗin tashar zuwa mai masaukin baki, mai masaukin baki zuwa haɗin haɗin batch (ƙaddamar da aikin nesa, bugawar nesa, canja wurin fayil ɗin batch), canja wurin fayil mai ma'amala, ƙofofi zuwa Tymnet da Telenet cibiyoyin sadarwar jama'a, X.25 haɗe-haɗe, ƙofofi zuwa X.25 cibiyoyin sadarwar bayanai, Ethernet haɗe-haɗe, kuma daga ƙarshe TCP / IP da ƙarin jami'o'in jama'a a Michigan sun shiga cibiyar sadarwar. Duk wannan ya shirya mataki don rawar Merit a cikin aikin NSFNET wanda ya fara a tsakiyar shekarun 1980.