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Any ideas on an alternate timeline where the United States government not AOL becomes an ISP. I know the internet was created by the US military in the 1970s but later on corporations like AOL and telecoms like AT&T got in on the internet. I am looking for an alternate timeline with a POD somewhere in the late 80s early 90s where the US government becomes an ISP and all internet access is either tax funded or subsidized and made cheaper. How would this make a difference, would it affect culture, politics, elections, would internet companies start up earlier, later?
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