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Re:Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech G... by fixermark on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @10:28AM (#15132375)
The original Internet was about connecting military and academic institutions via physically-secured machines and infrastructure decentralization.

We're at least two major iterations into "What the Internet is about" now.

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Re:Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech G... by turk183 on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @01:17PM (#15133978)
Yes, my segue into all of this was 1991 if that helps. SMTP, FTP, Gopher, Usenet--protocols, not platforms controlled by psychotic billionaires.
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