@existentialcomics

> Large-scale cooperation, open protocols, and free software gave us the internet.

Also government. The foundations of the internet started as US government research projects. That's why, to this day, reverse DNS lookups include references to the `in-addr.arpa` domain, with ARPA being the Advanced Research Projects Agency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.arpa

I am no fan of government, but I gotta give them their due on this.

(But yes, very much agreed on "not capitalism"! 👍🏻💯)