How did the Internet start?

[Le_Master]

Here are some prior discussions regarding the topic:

https://forum.freecapitalists.org/t/government-and-innovation/7161

But the government invented the Internet...

Currently the internet is the most de-centralized a therefore the freest form of communication. But as many people know, the internet began as a proyect for military intercommunication. That seems like a good argument to convince people of the benefits of government intervention in scientific/technological research (from an utilitarian point of view), but how could the internet have emerge without the government? Why didn’t the markets (private business) anticipated the potential profit from a …