Without the government, there would never have been an Internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet
Bell patented the telephone in 1876, era of federal regulation started in 1913. http://www.mackinac.org/6033
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FIDOnet was decades later than that and dependent upon the widespread availability of no-charge local calling.
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impossible to say whether the network over which FIDOnet ran could have grown up without regulation, but it *did* grow up under regulation.
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In an era where the state hamhands everything, it's difficult to find things free of its touch, for obvious reasons.
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But, importantly, FIDOnet was free of state direction or funding.
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