Read more: http://techland.time.com/2012/07/25/how-government-did-and-didnt-invent-the-internet/#ixzz22hSKziNH
I knew you'd fall into that one!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443931404577555073157895692.htmlThe government's Advanced Research Projects Agency led to ARPAnet. This early Internet was taxpayer funded, but BBN Technologies did the development, Honeywell handled the hardware, and AT&T provided phone lines. Researchers from Rand, MIT and UCLA were involved. Vint Cerf of Stanford and Robert Kahn of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and BBN get credit for TCP/IP, the backbone of the modern Internet. Reader comments also highlighted ideas from pioneers such as MIT's J.C.R. Licklider and Rand's Paul Baran.
In a letter in today's Journal, Mr. Cerf and Stephen Wolff write that both government and the private sector had important roles and that "focusing on one element to the exclusion or disparagement of other elements is simplistic, misleading and wrong." Yes: And with so much credit to go around, why does President Obama only give credit to government?
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