You make it sound like this was 10000 years ago and archeologists had to figure that out on dig sites. It’s well-known that the internet developed out of the ARPANET.
I believe it is on lemmy and you’re right since most users of this platform are here for a reason, and it mostly comes from witnessing first hand digital changes, mine is seeing recurring patterns of digital weaponization and coporate/governmental appropriation of the digital medium.
But to most people, using facebook, tiktok, using public access internet with no filtering of their IP or using the router your ISP gave you is totally valid and the broad public lacks the knowledge to understand why some people default to avoiding these options and why there is a moral explanation for why the internet should not be used with ignorance. My sharing of a historical fact was only because I made the error of thinking this was not public knowledge here.
It’s more that you phrased it “believed to be the real origin” which presents it like it’s somehow questionable - this was 1986, people who developed ARPANET are just recently retiring, this isn’t a lost or secret history. Also you say you’re not going to do something that sounds conspiracy-theory-y and then go on to do the thing you just said you wouldn’t do.
You make it sound like this was 10000 years ago and archeologists had to figure that out on dig sites. It’s well-known that the internet developed out of the ARPANET.
I believe it is on lemmy and you’re right since most users of this platform are here for a reason, and it mostly comes from witnessing first hand digital changes, mine is seeing recurring patterns of digital weaponization and coporate/governmental appropriation of the digital medium.
But to most people, using facebook, tiktok, using public access internet with no filtering of their IP or using the router your ISP gave you is totally valid and the broad public lacks the knowledge to understand why some people default to avoiding these options and why there is a moral explanation for why the internet should not be used with ignorance. My sharing of a historical fact was only because I made the error of thinking this was not public knowledge here.
It’s more that you phrased it “believed to be the real origin” which presents it like it’s somehow questionable - this was 1986, people who developed ARPANET are just recently retiring, this isn’t a lost or secret history. Also you say you’re not going to do something that sounds conspiracy-theory-y and then go on to do the thing you just said you wouldn’t do.