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How did the internet came into being?
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First the Internet was designed to provide battlefield command and control and then it was turned loose on the public and they tried to make it "profitable" selling ads.
I think the great firewall was a good idea
This jogged my memory, in between control centers and making money off ads there's been a lot of stuff. I'd never done a lot of research into what the very early internet was like, people told me "scientists mostly used it for sending work to each other".
But from the beginning there were people like Stewart Brand running invite-only websites for journalists. I really don't have the full story on that. I'm sure I'm missing lots of stuff.
He looks a lot like a spook to me, maybe this is just how rich early internet pioneers are. Dude ran a fake Indian heritage foundation with his wife, eat your heart out
Warren. To this day he inexplicably gets pro-fossil fuel articles published and boosted on the Bad Orange Website (I initially encountered him in the comments and in Wikipedia surrounding such articles or his own page lol). He despises Rachel Carson for trying to give pesticides bad PR.