When I want to look at my localhost and do "host ::1" or "dig -x ::1", my machine spits back something about ARPA. What is ARPA? It's how the US government pa

When I want to look at my localhost and do "host ::1" or "dig -x ::1", my machine spits back something about ARPA. What is ARPA? It's how the US government paid for decades for the R&D to create the Internet. Just like how the Air Force paid Fairchild to make semiconductors. Or the CIA paid Oracle to create relational databases. Technology was created in the US via the funding of the YS taxpayer, sent to the Pentagon and then sloshing around. Years or decades later it is ready to be a product and given over to private profit.