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
Lee, Lee, please do some research.
It is the off topic things that cause people to react. This will not
be a productive thread.
Winsor
Who does not believe that the Manhattan Project was a Chamber of
Commerce meeting.
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Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California, USA
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