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backbone

In networking, a high-bandwidth trunk to which smaller networks connect. The original backbone of the Internet was NSFnet, funded by the US National Science Foundation, which linked together the five regional supercomputing centres.



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For I believe that much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone.
There's not a lump as big as a pin--except backbone lumps, and you can only feel them because you're thin.
The more earnest members of his family never forgave him, and knew that his children, though scarcely English of the dreadful sort, would never be German to the backbone.
 
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