Umm ... Yeah. It was originally conceived to connect educational and research institutions together. BUT, then [as it grew], it became commercialized
Why is this government's fault?
Granted, people like Vint Cerf and Steve Crocker [with both of whom I have worked] were funded by the government to develop the method of peer-peer communication between computers - this was just a MINISCULE part of what we know as the Internet today ...