Another excellent piece by +Farhad Manjoo that refutes all of the outright lies that…


Another excellent piece by +Farhad Manjoo that refutes all of the outright lies that Gordon Crovitz tells about the creation of the internet. This really sums it up:

In other words, creating something as grand and untested as the Internet was something that a private company simply couldn’t do. The project was too big, and the payoff too uncertain. That’s true of most technologies in their infancy.

Who invented the Internet?: The outrageous conservative claim that every tech innovation came from private enterprise.
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