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title: The Internet Didn’t Digitize Finance. Tokenization Will.
description: Before firms like Netscape, Google, and AOL built accessible, intuitive on-ramps to the internet, it was largely the domain of academics and the military. It is difficult to imagine a world in which the internet remained confined to that niche. Yet that was its trajectory—until those firms made a complex, fragmented system usable for businesses and individuals alike.
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# [The Internet Didn’t Digitize Finance. Tokenization Will.](https://www.canton.network/news/the-internet-didnt-digitize-finance.-tokenization-will)

 Written by [Canton](https://www.canton.network/news/author/canton) | Mar 19, 2026 12:00:00 PM

Before firms like Netscape, Google, and AOL built accessible, intuitive on-ramps to the internet, it was largely the domain of academics and the military. It is difficult to imagine a world in which the internet remained confined to that niche. Yet that was its trajectory—until those firms made a complex, fragmented system usable for businesses and individuals alike.

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