DARPA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA Velcro, The Internet... Silly US government projects sometimes have down stream i

DARPA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA Velcro, The Internet... Silly US government projects sometimes have down stream impact. Even in defense, the government funding science is how we got here. Look at early computing (UINVAC, to CRAY) the history and the people have all sorts of ties to early crypto research and the navy! Later private industry gets in on the act. UNIX is a byproduct of AT&T, the monopoly version. The stuff that came out of bell labs that got tossed into the public because of a settlement is amazing.