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> This was done largely with privately developed tech like commercial telephone wires, commercial modems, commercial minicomputers, commercial solid state RAMs, commercial storage tech

Same happened with all of those. The government created the tech, then paid private corporations to implement it, literally funding the everything from scratch while the private corps grabbed the profits.

> This sped up the process of having a viable, unified internet

That's false. Chile's Socialist president was at the point of launching their Internet in mid 70s. Which was ended by the US backed coup.