Tell that to Vin Cerf, who was done creating the internet 20 years before that. Hell, I was transmitting monthly business data over the web in 1988, maybe I'm the inventor!
It was private industry (AT&T) that was among the pioneers in computing connectivity in 1969/1970 at Murray Hill, NJ. I have little doubt this Berners-Lee doofus would be first in line with the liberals who want to destroy Free Republic with their regulations.