• Phrodo_00@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    What? The early Internet underseas cables were laid down for phones, mostly by private companies.

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      8 months ago

      Fair point, the majority was laid by private companies, but the research for modern fiber optic cables was done at publicly funded universities.