Yes, Virginia, the US Government *did* Invent the Internet

Some people just wanna be haters. the WSJ's Gordon Crovitz revisits the question ofr who invented the Internet (sorry, Al) with a column Monday calling out the notion that it was the government as an "urban legend." This is pure bunk.

This is an excellent write-up of the history of the net, and debunks many myths. As Hitlzik points out, Crovitz confuses some other internet with THE Internet -- the one we are all using today. The one the World Wide Web works over -- also invented by way of government funding. Vint Cerf commented that the ARPANet, on which he worked, "led, ultimately, to the Internet." So give credit where credit is due -- sometimes basic R&D, funded for the common good by the government -- pays off. Just not in ways we can always predict.