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Who Really Invented the Internet?

Posted by samzenpus on Monday July 23, 2012 @06:48AM from the original-net dept.

jaymzter writes "The Wall Street Journal is running an article that it claims seeks to dispel an urban legend about the internet: 'The creation of the Arpanet was not motivated by considerations of war. The Arpanet was not an Internet.' The position of the piece is that it was Xerox's contribution of Ethernet that enabled the global series of tubes we know and love today, and what's interesting is that the former head of DARPA supports this claim."

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Lightly Veiled Attack on Obama by Princeofcups · 2012-07-23 06:57 · Score: -1, Flamebait

WSJ is no better than Fox News these days.

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What's funny/sad by publiclurker · 2012-07-23 08:56 · Score: -1, Flamebait

is that a self-centers brat like you think he has any form of world knowledge other than the opinion that the world revolves around their own overinflated sense of adequacy.