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...
Now, the inter-com system was the true concept that birthed the Ethernet. And really, the whole communication system morphed from the telegraph system that spanned the oceans by the late 1800s. Each inventor of these communication systems “borrowed” from the previous communication system as better understanding of electrical communication grew. Xerox’s earliest concepts came from the first Kodak Camera, and it’s method of creating a photo. It wasn’t until the Polaroid Camera’s “instant” pictures that the two concepts were joined, and as they say in general; “The rest is history”.
A lot of things get miss-taught, like the tale, “Henry Ford built the first car, or automobile.” Henry DID build the first Assembly Line for mass production, but a Frenchman, Nicolas-Joseph Cugno...
Now, the inter-com system was the true concept that birthed the Ethernet. And really, the whole communication system morphed from the telegraph system that spanned the oceans by the late 1800s. Each inventor of these communication systems “borrowed” from the previous communication system as better understanding of electrical communication grew. Xerox’s earliest concepts came from the first Kodak Camera, and it’s method of creating a photo. It wasn’t until the Polaroid Camera’s “instant” pictures that the two concepts were joined, and as they say in general; “The rest is history”.
A lot of things get miss-taught, like the tale, “Henry Ford built the first car, or automobile.” Henry DID build the first Assembly Line for mass production, but a Frenchman, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, built the first Automobile in 1769. However, the concept was first designed as a working model by Ferdinand Verbiest, a Flemish member of a Jesuit mission in China around 1672.
Therefore, Obama’s “speech” just proved that he is not only a lousy lawyer, but he is also a lousy historian. He doesn’t know anything about modern commercial history, let alone where or when or by whom it was invented.
I appreciate it.
As to building these needs, as far as that goes, the government did not build them, they were built by private contractors as was the Rail Roads. BTW, most Fire departments are Volunteer, And The STATE, not the US government, provides the vehicles and materials that are needed by them, which these vehicles and materials are also designed and built by private contractors. In the military reservations that exist, the plants, garages, and most buildings are maintained by civil contractors, except for vehicle maintaince, Armorys, and Barracks, which are maintained by soldiers that are trained in their prospective MOS's.
Of course the selective hearing crowd only hears the "collectivism" part and ignores the individualism part.
It feels like I've said it a million times, but I'll say it again. All great human endeavors have had the proper balance of individualism/self-interest/me and teamwork/collectivism/us. Point that out today and it's conservatives who attack you for being a socialist (no matter how much you indicate how important the entrepreneurial thing is). Ayn Rand was as screwed up as Karl Marx.
I think you better wake up and learn that the government is not your friend, but I will tell you this. Romney and Obama are really good friends, and at the end of the day, these millionaires sit down together and laugh at how stupid people like you are. Hell, they don’t even have to spend their own money to get you to elect them, either. Why? Because they have you and people like you to pay them to have you elect them.
networking and the internet start being research by private businesses and schools way before the government started adding to the research
And Agreed.
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Now you want to tax the physical and spiritual decendents of those victors with even heavier taxes? Madness!!
Shame phony conservatives live in a bubble.
he deserved...........
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Stop listening to far right propaganda.
Try to read a little more carefully.... I didn't say he invented the Internet,
but becaues he made sure they had the funding.... he was responsible
for it being invented...... In his mind, that is.
BTW, I thought it was the defense department who invented
the Internet.
I am an Independent; so cut the cr*p and trying to ridicule me.
I admit, I can't believe I voted for the Big sexual pervert Al in 2000.