You must be thinking of Al G's silly and fraudulent claim ;) No wonder he
grew a beard and started wearing plaid shirts.
But government - in any country - did not "invent" the internet. That is
certainly just not true.
... Or the computers, telephones, or radios, TVs, electric motors,
refrigerators, light bulbs, airplanes, cameras and film, the motor car, the
X-ray machines, MR scanners, CAT scanners, rail & trains, fiber optics,
flushing toilets (nor bidets), the record player, analogue tape, CDs, fiber
optics ..... or much of anything else.
Now, government has certainly put a handle on many such things early on for
it's own ends, with the result that we often only see the tail end of such
things in the retail stores and incorporated into "services". SOME
governments are also fond of *insisting* that they have control of certain
systematic services for the get go. But let's not equate that with
"invention" or "expertise" of any sort.
Cheers
Lee
----Original Message Follows----
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [OM] Further on technology (R&D)
It is private persons who do the research and developement - at
least in the United States, and in most of the less socialistic
nations. Governments are not in the business of invention, design,
developement etc.
-snip
Lee
Just not true. Please don't rewrite history for political purposes.
The internet we are communicating on is an example of a government
invention.
--
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California, USA
mailto:wincros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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