[wrs]

I guess it’s a matter of interpretation. Of course every computer connected to the internet is not government-funded. But in this context we’re talking about the origin of the technology and protocols that allowed the network to exist at all. By the time the internet got bigger than ARPANet, CSNET, and NSFNET (all government funded), the protocols were pretty much settled, and that’s what everyone else’s network used to become part of the internet. If the government hadn’t gotten it to that point, there would be no internet.