Without the government, there would never have been an Internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet
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What FidoNet shows is large-scale networking wasn't a mysterious discovery that needed a Manhattan project. Hobbyists could half-ass it.
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I'm not sure how really comparable those two things are. uucp was a lot closer in function to FidoNet.
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UUCP was thoroughly entangled with the early Internet, though. Ran on a lot of the same machines and pipelines. FidoNet was early PCs.
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I'm countering the popular idea that FedGov was necessary to have modern networks.
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Because here's a bunch of hobbyists creating a whole parallel infrastructure out of bandaids and foil.
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