As someone not too familiar with the underlying nuts and bolts of the internet, I wish the article had been a little more detailed about the direct aftermath of

As someone not too familiar with the underlying nuts and bolts of the internet, I wish the article had been a little more detailed about the direct aftermath of the "takeover". It wasn't clear to me if it was a permanent change that continued to this day or if it was just a temporary "demonstration". From wikipedia, it was apparently the latter, and was hastily reversed under heavy pressure from the US Government.