When military technology enters the mainstream, and becomes the basis of technology in widespread use by the public, it goes without saying that the original mi

When military technology enters the mainstream, and becomes the basis of technology in widespread use by the public, it goes without saying that the original military specifications are the initial "standards" present for that technology. This isn't the same as the government attempting to mandate standards for public use, especially with the intent to alter the way people are already using technology. In your list, only GPS represents a technology originally used by the military, whose initial military specification still mostly describes its current function. Everything else, and especially the Internet - which grew out of a DARPA project, but certainly isn't one any longer - is either a vague category (electrical/safety standards), areas in which standards have not originated from government mandates (telephony, the Internet, time zones), or areas in which government attempts to shift standards have been demonstrable failures (metric usage in the US).