Obama Was Right: The Government Invented the Internet

Suddenly, though, the government?s role in the Internet?s creation is being cast into doubt. ?It?s an urban legend that the government launched the Internet,? Gordon Crovitz, the former publisher of the Wall Street Journal, argued Monday in a widely linked Journal op-ed. Instead, Crovitz believes that ?full credit? for the Internet?s creation ought to go to Xerox, whose Silicon Valley research facility, Xerox PARC, created the Ethernet networking standard as well as the first graphical computer (famously the inspiration for Apple?s Mac). According to Crovitz, not only did the government not create the Internet, it slowed its arrival?that researchers were hassled by ?bureaucrats? who stymied the network?s success.

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