THE INTERNET — A History Lesson

Fernando Llorente
2 min readJan 12, 2021

The internet originally developed as a military and Academic network of computers interconnected at Universities across the country. The military funded the research, seeking a back up of their existing wired communication systems. The Academic nodes developed as a way for Academics to share research.

In the early 1980’s the ‘Web’ was developed. It converted the code based transfer of information between computers and created an easier user interface with ‘pages’ and ‘hyperlinks’. Once it took off with the tech geeks around the world, Corporate America showed up at the door to capitalize.

Creating a way to benefit from the web soon created the monsters. Corporations that weren’t just capitalizing, they were monopolizing. These tech conglomerates bypassed the common tech nerd and developed their own elite tech masters. The regular person creating a web page was soon pushed out of the game by the tech masters.

They were always in control because they owned the programs. They could create their own rules to stifle competition at the drop of a dime. Now here we are. Apple and Microsoft have cornered the market in software and hardware. Google has monopolized information dissemination. Facebook and Twitter have monopolized digital communication. And Amazon has monopolized commerce.

Now they have strangled freedom by being the self professed arbitrators of moral, social and legislative values. They have destroyed the freedom of artistic creative development and they have eliminated the public discourse of differing ideas to advance our civilization. To them everything is a robotic opportunity to be controlled and manipulated for profit. No humanity. No compassion.

And digital currency is the banking elites planned method for eliminating personal wealth and continuing their criminal empire by concealing the financial transactions of their international criminal syndicate. Remember that. And keep it in mind when making future decisions. Viral bioweapons have now become their secondary method of controlling the masses. George Orwell and others warned us. The future is here and now, and nowhere as pretty and perfect as we envisioned it.

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Fernando Llorente

Author, poet, filmmaker, storyteller, reader and listener.