this is practically the Internet’s origin story: the U.S. government created a military and scientific network for information sharing, and its users promptly started a Star Trek discussion forum. Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web for sharing high-energy physics papers, and its users promptly started posting pictures of their cats, their failed cake-baking adventures, and the titanic snowfall that had just been dumped outside their lab windows. And then they, too, started arguing about Star Trek.
