We had already had an &quot;AI is The Future&quot; boom in the 1970s-1980s, rapidly followed by the &quot;AI Winter&quot;. (1)<p>Also, we already had government-backed standard networking with OSI. The US, UK and EU governments were big OSI backers and didn&#x27;t want TCP&#x2F;IP. (2)<p>However, 20&#x2F;20 hindsight is a wonderful thing ;-)<p>(1) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;AI_winter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;AI_winter</a>
(2) <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spectrum.ieee.org&#x2F;computing&#x2F;networks&#x2F;osi-the-internet-that-wasnt" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spectrum.ieee.org&#x2F;computing&#x2F;networks&#x2F;osi-the-internet...</a>