Uhhn, yeah. Here's a starting point. Do a keyword search on: ARPANET.
Lamadoo
On Saturday, July 27, 2002, at 08:16 PM, Winsor Crosby wrote:
Lee, Lee, please do some research.
Lee wrote, in part:
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
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