The TCP/IP suite didn't make the Internet possible. Ethernet did. And Ethernet came from a private company, i.e., Xerox. And Ethernet was in use in certain private institutions before anyone heard of the Internet. (Example: The Johns Hopkins Hospital complex. I saw this first-hand in 1979 when I interviewed for admission to their School of Medicine.)
So: the Internet did get invented apart from the government. In fact, the private sector PUSHED the government, and didn't wait for it to act.
You didn't build that? Internet edition
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A week and a half ago, Obama said, "If you've got a business, you didn't build that; somebody else made that happen." That, in fact, was a government infrastructure.
Well, for Obama to claim that nobody gets anywhere without government help of some kind, is bad enough. (That the same help is available to all, but only some succeed, escaped his notice.)
But his claim that the government invented the Internet is demonstrably false.
L. Gordon Crovitz summed up the real history of the Internet. Other sources showed that the idea behind the Internet is as old as the Thirties. But the real point: most of the popular histories of the Internet ignore the role of specific companies that developed and/or popularized the technologies that make up the Internet.
Have a look at the linked article. Then ask yourself: did the government build the Internet from the bottom up, as Obama implied? Or is this just another Obama lie, on the order of Algore claiming personal credit for inventing the Internet?
Well, for Obama to claim that nobody gets anywhere without government help of some kind, is bad enough. (That the same help is available to all, but only some succeed, escaped his notice.)
But his claim that the government invented the Internet is demonstrably false.
L. Gordon Crovitz summed up the real history of the Internet. Other sources showed that the idea behind the Internet is as old as the Thirties. But the real point: most of the popular histories of the Internet ignore the role of specific companies that developed and/or popularized the technologies that make up the Internet.
Have a look at the linked article. Then ask yourself: did the government build the Internet from the bottom up, as Obama implied? Or is this just another Obama lie, on the order of Algore claiming personal credit for inventing the Internet?
Read More: http://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2012/07/23...
So who DID build the internet then?
And, wrong.
Don't know where he got the idea that the government builds things for us.. they wait until we build it, make it successful.. then they tax us for having the brains to do that.
Something very wrong here.
As for the Liberals using the tired Lib-blog-journo spin argument about what Obama said, so as to try to keep your golden childs head above the voter waters:
I started in computers with the military in 1979.
Did you even get the jest of what Obama meant, or are you a frothing at the mouth conservative that's more like Cujo?
It's no different than robbing a hardware store register and then, if the owner is lucky the robber returns to buy some screws. And if the store owner is really lucky, the robber will use some of those screw to hang a fixture in the store.
Unlike the government I work for what I have. I don't rob my neighbors and then give a small portion to some charity so they won't starve until I rob them again next year. If I as an individual have no right to rob my neighbor than neither do those individuals who belong to a group called government.
Saved me from botching it.
You have more patience than I. I look at the hateful rhetoric he spews and tell him to F/O.
I should have had some fun with his use of the word jest.
and all those you rob, I wonder how they got educated...
Oh no... is there a flaw in the ideological non-sense you posted? Doesn't take a genius to figure out that WE'VE all paid for government, and government has given us a few educated citizens, although you aren't one of them...
It's the god complex, right? You create something... become god... sell your god given created product or service and then allow the little people to worship you.
Got it... LMAO!.
These are the very same areas that Obama is cutting by half a trillion dollars.
Good luck with any future technology advances, Obummer. You just killed them.
One of the reasons for all the BS regarding "Al Gore invented the internet" and similar idiocies is that the Senator that introduced the bill in 1986 that basically gave the internet to the baby bells was Al Gore. His justification for it, btw, was that it was "already bought and paid for". Thus, he didn't invent it... he SOLD it.
Bad memory, sometimes.
I knew about the Steve Jobs connection but I thought he only got the ikon idea from Zerox.
I now also finally see why Bill Gates is such a liberal, with his former tie in with MSNBC, now NBC News.
You probably have the info showing that television was developed before radio. I know it.
Whereas dumb people *talk* about things they know nothing about, and demonstrate that they're the jackasses everyone thought they were!
Most of the things we do today on the Internet were made possible by college professors and students. Some of their work (but not all of it) was government-funded. Notice how when the government invests appropriately, the private sector joins in the economy benefits. When the government throws money out the window, we all lose.
If all government spending worked out like the Internet, Obama's speeches would make a lot more sense. But for every dollar spent on something useful, we get several dollars of entitlement throwaways, bankrupt green energy companies, and pork barrel jokes like Murtha's airport in Pennsylvania. Not all government spending is equally helpful to the economy.