What would have happened if the US Government/Military never released the Internet to the public?

Question

Please offer your insight in regards to what might have come to be if the internet was never made available to the public.
What might the world be like?
What problems or lack there of would we face?
Major differences from today?
Please offer as much insight into this scenario as you can!
Thanks so much in advance

Answer 1

Many people would focus more of their time into technology and new ****. Now, I'm not saying that the web is not considered "High tech technology" but its almost inevitable to not have such a wide scale of communication such as this. I'm just saying, we would probably have floating cars and like hologram entertainment/advertisements. Many people are focusing most of their time nowadays on pointless things.

For saying this makes me a hypocrite, but take video games for instance. That could easily be replaced for more of a training simulation, but the way its being used today... its rather pointless. =P

Games are totally cool though, they're just that aesthetic gap that we have. Making everything awesome...

Now I'm just ranting... sorry about that...

Answer 2

First of all, I believe even if ARPANET had never been made public something very similar to the internet would exist today, created by private companies. Even before the internet some computers were connected to each other.

However, assuming that had not happened, there would still be a lot of information available from servers. One big difference is that you would call a particular phone number to get to a particular site instead of entering a URL on a browser.

Anyone my age remembers life without home computers, much less the internet. Life wasn't that different. Things would be less efficient. You used to have to go to a broker's office to look up information on stocks. You used to have to retype an entire page if you left out a sentence. Reference books, such as an encyclopedia, were used more often.

Answer 3

umm.....the internet is public... large corporations' servers is what makes the backbone of the internet. internet stopped becoming just a government thing back in the early 90's