On: Why does so much government tech investment delive...

[moralestapia]

Some effort from everybody in the world, even us, its users.

I'd estimate the "GDP" and traffic related to public institutions as a single-digit percentage of the whole web.

[Apocryphon → moralestapia]

Private interest created the use cases and further innovation but public investment, as they say, took the initiative in creating the Internet.

[kortilla → Apocryphon]

Private interest created the internet you use today.

It’s like saying Pythagoras created all of modern math, including calculus.

[Apocryphon → kortilla]

No one here is claiming the Internet was created by one single party or another. Taking the initiative in creating something is a different thing from creating all of it.