Charles Cooper for CNet:
On Monday, former Wall Street Journal publisher Gordon Crovitz offered a decidedly revisionist take with a column titled, “Who Really Invented the Internet?” In the piece, Crovitz cast doubt on the assertion that the U.S. government deserved credit for helping create the Internet. He described the claim as an urban myth. Instead, Crovitz, who said that Xerox deserves the credit, refracted the question through a different lens: “It’s important to understand the history of the Internet because it’s too often wrongly cited to justify big government,” he wrote.
Vint Cerf was actually there at the time and helped develop the TCP/IP protocol that still makes the Internet work to this day – with the help of government research grants.
He says unequivocally that the government was vital in the development of the modern Internet:
The U.S. government, including ARPA, NSF, DOE, NASA among others absolutely facilitated, underwrote, and pioneered the development of the Internet. The private sector engaged around 12 years into the program (about 1984-85) and was very much involved in powering the spread of the system. But none of this would have happened without this research support.
If it was Xerox where is their patent application.
Even the Email was given trademark to a student and
BBN tried to discredit him.
Xerox came up the ethernet not TCP/IP protocol.
Remember, you didn’t built those streets
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It’s really getting close to election day… sigh
Yeah, it’s so tiresome when we’re reminded where infrastructure actually comes from, isn’t it?
The problem is that people need to be reminded at all or that “journalists” think they can retcon history because people are more interested in the rear end of some Kardashian than, you know, facts.
I mean seriously Fox News currently cuts out those parts of the Obama speech that provide, you know, context.
You’d think that with the help of the internet, people would actually get smarter, yet you have to explain to them what the basics of government are, like building roads or the internet. How can you even publish such a moronic article claiming XEROX built the internet?