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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 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.