umm, so subcontractors to the government/academia? sure there were a lot of those. Still, for more than 20 years during 1970-90s private sector largely discard

umm, so subcontractors to the government/academia? sure there were a lot of those. Still, for more than 20 years during 1970-90s private sector largely discarded ARPANet mutating into Internet as an academic toy. All while TCP/IP was invented by Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn at Stanford and HTML by Tim Berners Lee at CERN. Yup, two largely government-funded organisations again.