• bamboo@lemm.ee
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    The internet was developed by ARPA, then later made available to universities and eventually private connections. Military and public research developed the tech, capitalists figured out how to most efficiently sell junk using the tech.

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        but it was capitalists who made smartphones and computers

        Lately, capitalists of a very mercanitlist kind.