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“ federated and compatible, and open.” So - who’s doing it?

• chii 4y ago
  why is the internet federated, compatible (with all sorts of clients) and open? Who did it?
  • germinalphrase 4y ago
    I didn’t ask rhetorically. I was hopeful. A open internet was the better option. With VR/AR, we might need a strong shove toward robust interconnectivity.
  • lioeters 4y ago
    Academics funded by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) of the U.S. Department of Defense? UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, University of Utah, Doug Engelbart at SRI International, a non-profit scientific research institute.. I imagine there's research into VR/AR funded by the government for military purposes. But somehow I doubt it'd be an open protocol and system like the Internet.
  • LarsDu88 4y ago
    The internet was created my the us government to ensure that communication packets could be sent to receivers even if entire cities were destroyed by atomic weapons. This is the original purpose of ARPANet