Without the government, there would never have been an Internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet
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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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Not only that, but suppose the creation of ArpaNet itself depended on a *non-government protocol* that used patterns of sounds and symbols

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Apparently the rule is that once the government affects any project in anyway, all credit belongs to the state forever.
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Yup. And the ecosystem of FTN-based networks included some wonderfully diverse approaches to governance.
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ARPANET is the "muh roads" argument for teh cybers
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There was a good paper on that about 10 years ago. Cato perhaps?
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If we'd gotten hobbyist-led internet everything would still run on a shortwave radio backbone though.
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For the same reason we're still using UUCP bang path email addresses today?
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Competitors run into the issue: I can't fight someone who has all the money and inability to fail. ... http://tmi.me/1fipLt
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yep.
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You know.. like those mysterious radio station thingies and phone lines thingies the government invented
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The other thing, is when the government moves in.. when they don't outlaw even the most innocuous things (see hushaphone) or
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