PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) unveiled by Philip Zimmerman (:ad1:) US High Performance Computing Act (Gore 1) establishes the National Research and Education Network (NREN) NSFNET backbone upgraded to T3 (44.736Mbps) NSFNET visitors passes 1 trillion bytes/thirty day period and ten billion packets/thirty day period Defense Data Network NIC contract awarded by DISA to Government Systems Inc.