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36. Well, CERN is privately owned

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Thu Feb 28, 2019, 06:08 PM

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www was government research too... out of CERN hunter Feb 2019 #16

Well, CERN is privately owned dalton99a Feb 2019 #36

The concept and protocol was gov and uni based, the modern network capitalism Amishman Feb 2019 #48

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It was invented by AOL in 1993, right? hunter Feb 2019 #15

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He got the funding for DARPA, if memory serves. Ilsa Feb 2019 #26

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