 In the time period when the ARPANET was connected to the newly formed NSFNET project in the late 1980s, the term was used as the name of the network, Internet, being the large and global TCP/IP network.As interest in networking grew by needs of collaboration, exchange of data, and access of remote computing resources, the TCP/IP technologies spread throughout the rest of the world.The hardware-agnostic approach in TCP/IP supported the use of existing network infrastructure, such as the IPSS X.25 network, to carry Internet traffic.