The end of the American Internet

By Michael Becker | Published: October 5, 2009

The U.S. government’s agree­ment with ICANN expired on Sept. 29, mean­ing that America has more or less given up con­trol of the net­work its uni­ver­si­ties and mil­i­tary created.

I think this is worth not­ing, at least in pass­ing. It’s not every day that most of us think about the mas­sive net­work that our pre­cious World Wide Web runs on.

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