Yes, they did. The Internet is a direct derivitive of US Government work.
Originally started as ARPANET, it was just internal to the government. It
then, if I remember, expanded to universities and was only reluctantly
opened to the public.
There's a brief history at:
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml
But it CLEARLY was a government project. There were parallel projects in
packet-switching, but none advanced like the DARPA project.
Tom
> 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.
<snip
> Cheers
> Lee
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