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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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First Post by GameboyRMH · 2012-07-23 06:50 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It was Al Gore, duh.

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Re:The Internet existed before that by Hatta · 2012-07-23 07:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I'm sorry, somehow my brain didn't read the word "networks" in that sentence.

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Re:twisted pair, twisted logic by cpu6502 · 2012-07-23 07:19 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Obama is the typical college professor who knows a lot of facts and information and theory, but very little real world knowledge. President Woodrow Wilson had the same flaw. (And also lied that he would not take us to war.)

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Re:twisted pair, twisted logic by spire3661 · 2012-07-23 07:47 · Score: 0, Offtopic

How can you possibly not add Bush Jr to that list?

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