From my friend/mentor David:
Don't ever let statists - even Dear Leader - tell you that government created or invented the Internet. The government paid a private company (Rand Corporation) to create a packet switching network. The government then used this "creation of government" as a compliment to its weapons systems. In other words, the government viewed the Internet as a tool to help them kill more efficiently. And even with all of the contributions to the eventual DARPAnet - both public and private - the government still couldn't figure out a damn useful thing to do with it. Then it released this technology and you see what the market did with it. The government creates nothing but destruction. The government didn't create the Internet. We did. The market did.
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