Without the government, there would never have been an Internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet
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To anticipate the obvious criticism: No, FidoNet wasn't ever going to replace the pre-Web Internet. ARPAnet had first-mover advantage & $$$.
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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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Yup. And the ecosystem of FTN-based networks included some wonderfully diverse approaches to governance.
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There was a good paper on that about 10 years ago. Cato perhaps?
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