content: You're right, it linked to an article. I scanned it and saw it refers to "Surveillance Valley" by (((Yasha Levine))). It states right off the Internet was "originally developed in the 1960s as an intelligence-gathering network. I doubt that since it's origins were clearly in defense (ARPANET, as you yourself said). I think it gradually developed into that when the infrastructure because robust enough in the 1990s. Without a fiberoptic backbone it wasn't possible. Google as a surveillance tool? Obviously. That's old news. The CIA helped fund it with seed money. You might think I'm quibbling about the word "originally" but since what's been done since ARPANET left the military and academic realm, its development as a surveillance tool since then is pretty well known. Not exactly breaking news. Edit: It's ARPANET, not DARPANET.