Who invented the Internet? Xerox

I suppose we can’t expect Obozo to know better than to think his precious big feds invented the Internet since almost everyone else does. But would it be too much to ask a POTUS to do more research than clip newspaper and magazine articles? Looks like that’s about all that this one and his clown act of advisers does.

“If the government didn’t invent the Internet, who did? Vinton Cerf developed the TCP/IP protocol, the Internet’s backbone, and Tim Berners-Lee gets credit for hyperlinks. But full credit goes to the company where Mr. Taylor worked after leaving ARPA: Xerox. It was at the Xerox PARC labs in Silicon Valley in the 1970s that the Ethernet was developed to link different computer networks. Researchers there also developed the first personal computer (the Xerox Alto [above]) and the graphical user interface that still drives computer usage today.”

And, yep, even the mouse

Not that everyone agrees, of course. Really, it depends on how you interpret it. The government funded a lot of the early research. But all that did was lay the stepping stones. And it isn’t the same thing as inventing it.

Via the WSJ and Instapundit