Editing TAT-8 (section)

==Impact==

In 1989, with the new available capacity due to the TAT-8 cable, [[IBM]] agreed to fund a dedicated [[T-carrier|T1]] link between [[Cornell University]] and [[CERN]], which was completed in February 1990.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4ZdGAAAAQBAJ&q=1989+cornell+ibm+transatlantic&pg=PA90 |title=Network Geeks: How They Built the Internet| author= Carpenter, Brian |date=10 April 2013|publisher=Springer |isbn=9781447150251|access-date=2017-05-10}}</ref> It greatly increased the connectivity between the American and European portions of the early [[Internet]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Fluckiger |first=Francois |date=February 2000 |title=The European Researchers' Network |journal=La Recherche |url=https://fluckiger.web.cern.ch/Fluckiger/Articles/F.Fluckiger-The_European_Researchers_Network.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://fluckiger.web.cern.ch/Fluckiger/Articles/F.Fluckiger-The_European_Researchers_Network.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |access-date=14 June 2020}}</ref> This allowed [[Tim Berners-Lee]] a high-speed, direct and open connection to the [[NSFNET]], which greatly aided the first demonstrations of the [[World Wide Web]] ten months later. It was also crucial, along with the collapse of the [[Warsaw Pact]] at the same time, to the acceptance of [[TCP/IP]] protocols in Europe.