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Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf can recognize Al Gore's contribution to the creation of the Internet but you cannot? Without government involvement and investment, the global communications network might have started and ended at AOL.

It's easy now to forget what the internet was like even 20 years ago when things were just ramping up. There were huge government initiatives all around the world that made it viable for commercial ventures to use it.



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