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0 pointsjmyeet1y ago0 comments

The Internet was quite literally a government invention. Google was invented at Stanford. Linux was created by a volunteer who organized on Usenet.

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Sure, but most of the innovation was in private companies and in open source projects (which I should have included in the first place).

> Usenet

That is FOSS and P2P collaberative (at least on the server level). Is that somehow connected with government?

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0 pointsjmyeet1y ago0 comments

The Internet was quite literally a government invention. Google was invented at Stanford. Linux was created by a volunteer who organized on Usenet.

Sure, but most of the innovation was in private companies and in open source projects (which I should have included in the first place).

> Usenet

That is FOSS and P2P collaberative (at least on the server level). Is that somehow connected with government?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse