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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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