• Pee comes from the balls@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Fun fact: the internet actually has a precursor believed to be the real origin of the concept of the internet. It used to be called ARPANET developed by ARPA, a US military organization which later changed name to DARPA. This is similar with the concept of VPNs which actually were invented by the US military when they designed IPsec. I will abstain from trying to connect the two since this would sound conspiratory but it is a pretty weird phenomenon that instances of the western internet being militarized are becoming more frequent and observable through time and this aligns with the tendency of most digital innovations usually having creation origins stemming from military research.

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      8 hours ago

      a precursor believed to be the real origin

      You make it sound like this was 10000 years ago and archeologists had to figure that out on dig sites. It’s well-known that the internet developed out of the ARPANET.