Government supporters like to suggest that the internet is a government project. They claim that the computer industry owes its existence to the Pentagon. Neither of these claims is true. The internet grew when the Pentagon took its hands off of it. Computers were developed without the Pentagon. These inventions have military applications and defense departments have always been very interested in them, but the defense departments did not develop them. Actually the explosive growth of the internet occurred when the net went civilian and grew out of its military background and control. The defense department control was holding it … Continue reading The myth that government created the internet