Who Really Invented the Internet?
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If you can access the net outside 8:30 am-4:30 pm, private industry had to have created it
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In a now-infamous speech President Obama made recently, he gave credit to the government for not only individuals’ various successes but also informed us that “government research created the internet so that all companies could make money off the internet.” Mr. Obama has since sobered up and backed off this Al Gore position.
But being an open-minded person who wants to believe his President, I wondered if perhaps the government did produce what has been a wildly successful tool in today’s society. So I pondered what the internet would be like if sired by the government.
President Obama claims government researchers invented the internet
If the government invented the internet:
- you could only access it between the hours of 8:30 to 4:30 on weekdays, no holidays nor weekends.
- it would take 30 minutes before you could access it, on a good day.
- once given access to it, you would have to fill out 17 forms, many of which are well-hidden in a bureaucratic thicket (think: USAJOBS.gov).
- once on the web, you would have to pay a tax…err….penalty…err…fee, especially as the computers being used get gold-plated pension and medical (hardware/software maintenance) benefits as they are unionized.
- time would be limited on the internet (experience: any public library) as the government only knows rationing (could anything other tan tax revenues and spending be limitless?).
- An internet using point-&-click? Nope. Think DOS and get ready to master the tab key (don’t worry, ObamaCare would’ve included treatment for carpal-tunnel syndrome)
- Even though you might get booted off of the internet at a most inopportune (and productive) moment, fear not as it was justified: you would have been reminded that you used your “fair share” of the web.
Given that my internet experiences are far different from the scenario above, I can safely (and thankfully) conclude that President Obama and (sic) President Gore are incorrect about who mid-wifed the web.
-I.M. Windee
