Agree. First it was for military, then academia, then commerce (dot com), then more commerce/social/mobile.

Bitcoin and other P2P apps starting with Napster were the subversive and populist tech that was built on a military industrial network.

I would say the culture and ethos of programming was subversive, the home computer market somewhat so as well. But the internet solidly originated within the establishment and was part of the cold war.