The record contradicts what you are saying here; what you've written is almost a perfect inversion of historical fact. All the commercial networks being develo

The record contradicts what you are saying here; what you've written is almost a perfect inversion of historical fact. All the commercial networks being developed or deployed when the Internet was being invented were circuit switched, centralized networks. They really didn't have anything to do with the Internet at all. The design philosophy behind the Internet [1, Section 3] was drastically different than all commercial efforts at the time. The design was so different and so unique compared to existing work that the inventors won a Turing Award for it. As an aside, all of the above is typically covered in the first week or two of a networking course (I like Brighten Godfrey's [2]). [1] http://ccr.sigcomm.org/archive/1995/jan95/ccr-9501-clark.pdf http://ccr.sigcomm.org/archive/1995/jan95/ccr-9501-clark.pdf [2] http://courses.engr.illinois.edu/cs538/ http://courses.engr.illinois.edu/cs538/