Buck,
Have fun with telnet and ftp. You better not use the WWW, especially http or flash. Those were developed by evil non-governmental agencies. I hope you find legacy support for NCP.
I'm gonna disgree technically speaking, canna. DARPA invented the Internet protocols tcp/ip. Everything you mention is layered on that. The the complex crafting of the Road itself was invented by DARPA, the various types of pavement, say, those protocol like hyper text transfer, or even XML are merely abstraction layers of the vary same thing.
The road and pavement of roads are not the same thing. And where did you get this evil govt business? If you think we are not in bed deep with this govt in the computer business, wrong.
At the top levels, their labs and our labs amount to the same thing. We collaborate, if they let us know at all.
You are talking about patented programming concepts that make a lot of money while we ride the Road.
And the Road goes on forever, (I got one more silver dollar) ahmmm....I digress.
And it isn't like DARPA even built the Road. But, they invented the very idea of a Road.
It self-aggregated and years later Yahoo was born. Why? More protocols were invented, collaborating with the academics and govt both... like http made aggregation more appealing. Colors and Pictures. Need speed for that. Got speed. Got more users. Got speed enough for Porn.
BANG.....
It all sloshes back and forth like that but it is not wrong to say Porn invented the Internet as you you speak of it.
They still won't say much about Internet 2....probably learned the lesson of Porn. (hee, hee)