I’ve always been confused about this, but then, so many of their “big plans” were poorly planned, like 9/11. Any theories about why they took the chance with the Internet? Shortsighted? Or just plain stupid?
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I think we took it from them in all honesty.
We're fighting college indoctrination right now in the culture war. The first places that were technically on ARPANET so they could share research and etc for DARPA/ARPA. In parallel, BBSes started to rise to popularity, and while many probably didn't experience that era, I did. My earliest experience outside of dialing in to other states BBSes was when MajorBBSs which primarily were known for online chat would link together for a short time so you could chat with people worldwide. Could dial into Universities at that time to access the Internet in its infant form with the basic TCP suite, IRC, FTP, Usenet. Then you started getting regular ISPs but not many people used those at the time.
Fast forward a bit later and trickledown effect occurs, get Windows with a GUI, then America Online and Compuserv, ISPs start getting added functionality from that and more people using computers. Eventually Internet replaces the AOL/Compuserv.
Using Twitter as a parallel, we used to have 50 million instant messengers, Mirabilis's ICQ (my first one, and think it might've technically been the first), AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, so on. Then Twitter comes along and becomes the cell phone equivalent and takes over the marketplace from those after they did their own cannabilism. "Everyone's on Twitter" until they start banning and causing people to say "fuck this platform" and now we've got Gab, Parler, Truth, etc. Cannibalism will begin again. The cycle always repeats. Same thing with "Cloud", "lets have it all in one place, the cloud!" "fuck the cloud, we need our own copies it cannot be trusted" .
Anyways, that's my ramble, inevitability Mr. Anderson.