The Internet was created by DARPA and while it got a little wild in the 90s, neither its origins or current form in any way resemble anarchy.

Just because "The Internet"'s _mainstream_ may not resemble anarchy, this doesn't prohibit other parts to resemble anarchy. In fact there are a lot of examples active and thriving "on the Internet" fulfilling various definitions of anarchy.

Or it's infrastructure, or design, or all the corporate committees involved in managing it. Care to give counter examples?

p2p crypto trading, p2p mesh networking, self-hosting a website on some open-source hardware...

It's a protocol that's literally not centrally controlled. It's the definition of anarchy. Not "cosmetic anarchy."

The thing created by a US Government agency at the height of the Cold War is your example of anarchist success story?

Yes, because I'm not talking about "how it came into existence," I'm using the actual textbook definition of the word.

There is a LOT of -archy overhead to the Internet.

Sure, but I think that still fits a common definition of anarchy. The idea isn't "chaos," it's "hey, the thing still works even though there isn't a clear hierarchy."

Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it isn't there. That's like arguing "schools are anarchy, I see no hierarchy on the playground over there"

The Internet whose addresses are handed out by IANA? That Internet? Or are you talking about Web3 scamware?