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colechristensentoday at 6:46 AM1 replyview on HN

The web was invented at CERN and spread through universities and got taken up by nerds. It could not possibly have been more state sponsored.


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boudintoday at 6:56 AM

And the Internet was state sponsored too, at the time though it was not even legal to create communication networks in a lot of countries. But that's the premises

But what it gave birth to was a form of anarchy. One doesn't go against the other, the same way a political regime can change within a country.