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The campaigns related to the establishment of protocols that run on the Internet were intense. The US government, for example, preferred another protocol but TCP/IP was non-proprietary and public domain and thus spread anarchically like a wild fire across small networks and in the end it would have been to expensive to switch to another standard.

"The Victorian Internet"

Vannevar Bush outlined the idea of hyperlinked pages and the “Memex

Editor:  Steve Woolgar Publisher:  Oxford University Press, 2002