Aww, crap. We (DARPA, BNN, et al) built this resilient network which interprets firewalls as outages and routes around them. We build this cheap-to-publish net

Aww, crap. We (DARPA, BNN, et al) built this resilient network which interprets firewalls as outages and routes around them. We build this cheap-to-publish network where anybody can get a broad audience. And now we have to deal with cybercriminals and cyberbullshitters. Good networks have interesting consequences. What if some misbegotten mishmash of Prestel, X.25, MAP/TOP and DECNet had prevailed in the marketplace instead of HTTP/TCP/IP? What if people had to learn to whistle ASN-1 into a modem to get online? Would it have slowed things down?