AOL was made far after that and still exploded in popularity. Facebook today is approaching the level of mega AOL. There is a constant pull between open and cl

AOL was made far after that and still exploded in popularity. Facebook today is approaching the level of mega AOL. There is a constant pull between open and closed systems. Nothing the government did ensured networks would be connected together. TCP/IP is such a low level building block it’s easy to create closed networks with it.