I am sure that DARPA, BBN, USC Information Sciences Institute, and many others will be overjoyed to learn that they've been erased from history by the new narrative that Venture Capitalists Built Everything. (-:

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jacobgold 2 hours ago | parent [-]

BBN was a private company...

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jorams 2 hours ago | parent [-]

A private company doing DARPA-funded research.

	▲	jacobgold 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Initially, yes, and then they became an important commercial internet service and backbone provider. They were quickly joined by a huge wave of other private companies, almost all VC-backed.