The assumption that promises made in a grant proposal are the only purposes the Internet was designed for is wrong.
Can't talk to the Internet design but we were talking about using the Web for payments back in 1992.
The Internet design is a negative design, the objective was to build a network that could be used for any purpose by taking the intelligence out of the center of the network and putting it in a place where it could be easily changed. So it was not designed to move money, nor for any other specific task, it was designed to be a general purpose communication infrastructure that could support anything.
In the 1970s, that was the edge. In the modern world where a home may have thousands of computers, the edge of the network may not be the edge of the compute surface. But the principle remains putting the intelligence where it is reachable.
On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 9:41 PM Nyagudi Musandu Nyagudi <nyagudim=40yahoo.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The Internet was not developed for E-Commerce, Blue chip bottom lines or Telco Tax Revenues, it was developed for robust multi-route communications in event of a Nuclear War or other forms of Mass Destruction. That objective has been lost somewhere along the way via Telco dependence, involvement of a multiplicity of Nations, Need for Private Venture Capital, etcNyagudi
