And that's not the only benefit. By using the resources of the Internet to help keep expenses down, Snyder did the taxpayers a favor. The Internet was created via government grants doled out by ARPA, the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency. So, one might suggest, the US government was originally responsible for the success of Doom. The Internet as secret weapon - talk about your chickens coming home to roost.
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