dreamdu5t you are so wrong that you deserve to be onvoted, but I dont do that. The basic IP technology was all government funded and developed by BB&N. The original internet was ARPAnet, funded by the government to link the government, military, universities, and military contractors (.gov, .mil, .edu, and .com). The Internet itself was set up separate from DARPAnet by government legislation and funding. The whole domain registration mechanism was at one time under the ultimate control of the Commerce Department. The world wide web protocol was developed at CERN, funded by multiple governments. The browser that became Netscape was developed at the University of Illinois. It was only after the Internet was set by the government did we get the explosion of users and applications. The competitors to the the internet developed by private corporations, like MCI mail or Prodigy, are all dead now.