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**deackatera** · 07-17-2012, 03:36 AM

You claimed that the foundations of the Internet were developed by the private sector. In fact, they were developed by Bell Labs, the R&D arm of AT&T, which AT&T was able to fund due to their cushy monopoly.

And before all that there was Alexander Graham Bell. Tinkering away in his lab without the benefit of government.

And since Vint Cerf cut his teeth at IBM you could argue that the government created Internet was created by a guy that was trained in the private sector.

07-17-2012, 03:36 AM	#15
deackatera Join Date Dec 2005 Posts 511 Senior Member	You claimed that the foundations of the Internet were developed by the private sector. In fact, they were developed by Bell Labs, the R&D arm of AT&T, which AT&T was able to fund due to their cushy monopoly. And before all that there was Alexander Graham Bell. Tinkering away in his lab without the benefit of government. And since Vint Cerf cut his teeth at IBM you could argue that the government created Internet was created by a guy that was trained in the private sector.
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