https://www.fastcompany.com/91363294/why-1995-was-the-year-the-internet-grew-up


The internet wasn’t born whole—it came together from parts. Most know of ARPANET, the internet’s most famous precursor, but it was always limited strictly to government use. It was NSFNET that brought many networks
together, and the internet that we use today is almost NSFNET itself.

Almost, but not quite: in 1995, the government that had raised the
internet from its infancy gave it a firm shove out the door. Call it a graduation, or a coming of age. I think of it as the internet getting
its first real job.
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by JB Crawford, who writes the blog Computers are Bad, which many of you
might like. https://computer.rip/

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