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by AStonesThrow
639 days ago
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The Internet was intentionally commercialized and privatized as a third step in its development, from DARPA project, to education/research network, to what we have today. Mainstreaming is a side effect of its broadening scope; as college students graduated and scholars took their work home with them, the NSFnet backbone was ceded to Sprintlink, and OS/hardware developers started working on consumer-grade interfaces. |
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