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Technically that was something invented before/in WW-II.
True, both most of the development effort required to turn the tech into a practical transportation system happened after the war (and more than half of the funding came from militaries).
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We might be stuck with compuserve and AOL.
We had the internet before the web, and we had gopher. So we had an open network, the client server model and links. What the web brought was a more flexible protocol and document format. That was important, but there's no way we'd have been stuck with compuserve or AOL.