It has been said that Al Gore claims to have invented the
internet, but clearly, that's a silly over interpretation. The
other day the President claimed that government invented the
internet. However, that's also an over reach. The government
developed TCP/IP which is the language of the internet, but it
wasn't government that applied it. In the 1970's Xerox was in
the computer and copier business. A big challenge was hooking up
multiple computers to one copier. They developed a way to
network computers and copiers. It was in the late 70's that
Steve Jobs inked a deal with Xerox to use some of it's
innovative technology - including computer inner-connectivity.
He said Xerox was so focused on copiers that they didn't realize
that their use of TCP/IP was an even bigger innovation. From:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...008406518.htmlIt's
important to understand the history of the Internet because it's
too often wrongly cited to justify big government. It's also
important to recognize that building great t