Kedu n'ime ndị a abụghị obodo dị na Michigan: East Lansing, Ann Arbor ma ọ bụ IBM? N'iburu ajụjụ nke mbụ n'uche, dee ihe gbara ya gburugburu bụ́ nke ga-enye azịza ya. Ọ nwere ike ịbụ 1 - 20 ahịrịokwu. Ihe ndị gbara ya gburugburu:
Merit Network, Inc., otu ụlọ ọrụ na-enweghị uru 501 (c) (3) nke ụlọ ọrụ gọọmentị nke Michigan na-achịkwa, e guzobere na 1966 dị ka Michigan Educational Research Information Triad iji nyochaa netwọk kọmputa n'etiti mahadum atọ nke Michigan dị ka ụzọ iji nyere aka na agụmakwụkwọ na mmepe akụ na ụba nke steeti. Site na nkwado mbụ sitere na steeti Michigan na National Science Foundation (NSF), e gosipụtara netwọkụ packet-switched na Disemba 1971 mgbe a na-ejikọ njikọ nnabata na nnabata n'etiti IBM mainframe computer systems na Mahadum Michigan na Ann Arbor na Wayne State University na Detroit. N'October 1972 njikọ ndị e nwere na mainframe nke CDC dị na Mahadum Michigan State dị n'Ebe Ọwụwa Anyanwụ Lansing mere ka atọ ahụ zuo ezuo. N'ime afọ ole na ole sochirinụ na mgbakwunye na nnabata na nnabata njikọ mmekọrịta, a na-eme ka netwọk ahụ dịkwuo mma iji kwado njikọ njedebe na nnabata, nnabata na nnabata njikọ batch (ntinye ọrụ dịpụrụ adịpụ, mbipụta dịpụrụ adịpụ, nnyefe faịlụ batch), nnyefe faịlụ mmekọrịta, ọnụ ụzọ ámá na netwọkụ data ọha na eze Tymnet na Telenet, X.25 mgbakwunye nnabata, ọnụ ụzọ ámá na netwọkụ data X.25, Ethernet jikọtara ndị ọbịa, na TCP / IP na mahadum ndị ọzọ na Michigan sonyere na netwọkụ. Ihe a niile mere ka Merit rụọ ọrụ na NSFNET bidoro n'etiti afọ 1980.