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Every time a corporation was involved in making something big (like the Rand Corporation with ARPANET (which later became the Internet) it involved the government facilitating that (DARPA). There is no way a corporation just by itself with R&D could have had the vision to create the foundations that paved the way for the Internet what we have now (I'm not saying the private sector doesn't at least deserve a pat on the back). The fact that developing packet switching networks because we were pretty close to having a nuclear holocaust with the former Soviet Union seems to miss the minds of libertarians.