Correcting the Record: the Government's Role In the Internet

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @01:24AM from the oh-finally-it's-settled dept.

TwobyTwo writes "Yesterday, Slashdot posted a piece titled Who Really Invented the Internet?. It quoted a Wall Street Journal article with the same title by Gordon Crovitz. Crovitz makes the claim that government research did not play a key role in driving the invention of the Internet, giving credit instead to Xerox PARC. Unfortunately, Crovitz' article is wrong on many specific points, and he's also wrong in his key conclusion about the government's role. In a wonderful piece in the LA Times Michael Hiltzik corrects the record. Hiltzik, who is the author of an excellent book about PARC called Dealers of Lightning, makes clear that government funded research was indeed the foundation for the Internet's success."

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You don't say... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-24 01:31 · Score: 0, Troll

The WSJ never let the facts get in the way of a good story... especially when the story is so delicious to the yapping maws of Ayn Rand worshippers that make up their primary audience.
Re:Al Gore by mcgrew · 2012-07-24 03:07 · Score: 1, Troll

Did Al Gore create the Internet? No. Was he one of the people primarily responsible for making it what it is today? Yes.
So rather than creating it, he ruined it. I hate what the internet has become, thanks to the greedsters.

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