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[Star Wars] How widespread is Holonet, and how similar is it to our Internet?

Do some planets simply not have Holonet, or have their own version of it?
gpt
Depends on the era. It's fairly common in the Republic, but expensive for the average citizen to go interplanetary; slicing thorough hyperspace ain't like running scripts, kid. Each planet / star system would likely have their own local net, as well; it'd be cheaper to access. (Imagine if the WWW cost more when you accessed overseas information. It'd be like that, but on a planetary scale.)

The Empire shut most of it down and repurposed the rest for the military. This let them control the flow of information to a world. It also made the life of a slicer more exciting.

The New Republic started rebuilding it, but it took a long time for the infrastructure to reach pre Empire levels.