ahalpert
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PS. Abe, neither the government nor Al Gore invented the Internet. And, while Wernher von Braun did create a set of rockets working for a set of governments, there were other costs involved.
"The people who invented the internet came from all over the world. They worked at places as varied as the French government-sponsored computer network Cyclades, England’s National Physical Laboratory, the University of Hawaii and Xerox. But the mothership was the US defense department’s lavishly funded research arm, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (Arpa) – which later changed its name to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) – and its many contractors. Without Arpa, the internet wouldn’t exist.
As a military venture, Arpa had a specifically military motivation for creating the internet: it offered a way to bring computing to the front lines. In 1969, Arpa had built a computer network called Arpanet, which linked mainframes at universities, government agencies, and defense contractors around the country. Arpanet grew fast, and included nearly 60 nodes by the mid-1970s."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...the-internet-was-invented-1976-arpa-kahn-cerf
I suspect that gimbal and drone technology is a product of tax dollars as well, thanks to research for military surveillance and murder drones.