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> "Taxpayers built this infrastructure" ARPANET became obsolete and made redundant by private backbone providers, and so was decommissioned in 1990.
by em3rgent0rdr 9y ago
> "Taxpayers built this infrastructure"
ARPANET became obsolete and made redundant by private backbone providers, and so was decommissioned in 1990.
- unityByFreedom 9y agoTaxpayers have done more than ARPANET. This is about the 1996 Telecom Act, and how the public has allowed private companies to acquire regional monopolies while using public resources.