> Web protocols, smartphones, personal computers, encryption etc., all of this came from the military into Silicon Valley, not the other way around. While the

> Web protocols, smartphones, personal computers, encryption etc., all of this came from the military into Silicon Valley, not the other way around. While the low level protocols like TCP came out of DARPA, the web protocols like HTTP were all civilian. Neither personal computers or smartphones were military inventions. Modern encryption is sometimes traced to WW2, but cryptography is thousands of years old.