re: Spoken as someone who wouldn't know what libraries do if one fell on him.
(shaking head)
Mary Anne, Mary Anne ...
Not that old line about Al Gore being a librarian, surely ?
Actually, computer scientists of various flavours were using the InterNet before the military, and then concurrently with the military, even as Arpanet was in its infancy ...
Then defence contractors and Universities used it as a medium of information exchange ...
Librarians are but one subgroup of the 'Mary-Anne-come-latelies' who latched onto the InterNet ...
Of course, I'm basing these words on facts and information I garnered as a computer scientist and then as one who worked for defence contractors ... such a basis probably won't pass muster ...