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by hereforphone 1794 days ago
Are you familiar with the history of the Internet?
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Yes, and as such I'm aware that it was not the Silicon Valley-only project that a certain crowd likes to portray it as. The specific implementation of TCP (and indeed DNS) that ARPANET used came from UC, but it's derived from the French CYCLADES project via the INWG. So it was an international effort from the start, and that's even more true for the complex stacks that today's commercial websites run on.
Those websites running that Swiss originated hypertext protocol? The one that won because the US protocol (gopher) was monetized?