Coming Soon Buy Bit Bonds. In 1991, this site was used to force the ITU on-line. Read an account of that adventure. The Internet Pablo Picasso once said that good art is created, but great art is stolen. On the Internet, the same holds true.
Good code is created, but great code is copied over and over.
The Internet was created from open source software, code that people can freely use to build new code, to run their networks, to create a new business, or to build a service that people can use. Take for example the work of Paul Vixie, who has placed in the public domain the software that the Domain Name System runs on. This software has been used by every major Internet Service Provider and has been bundled into the operating system products of IBM, DEC, Silicon Graphics, and Sun. Open source software created the Internet, and created the economic boom we now see in Silicon Valley. Most of the large web sites in the world run on the open source Apache web server.