[The Great RJ]

While the Internet may have had roots in government programs it was entrepreneurs who made it into the technological marvel of the millennia. Can you imagine where the Internet would be if the government had controlled and developed it? I am sure it would be at least 20 years behind where it is today or still just a university based curiosity.

However even more key to the Internet is computer technology. Again entrepreneurs and private companies made the first integrated circuits (Fairchild Semiconductor), IBM and Xerox gave us the PC architecture and the basis for a windows graphic users interface and of course Bill Gates and Steven jobs were not government bureaucrats either.

Obama's assertion that the government invented the internet is as bogus as his birth certificate.

[matt04]

I am sure it would be at least 20 years behind where it is today or still just a university based curiosity.

Government mandate of IE 6?

[rurgan]

I agree with your post.

It is private companies that run and manage the Internet now. Of course Obama and the UN want the UN to run it ( yeah run it into the ground). Government (socialism) can't run anything and look at the government schools and public housing projects as examples of how terrible government is. Also look at the low quality of healthcare in England etc where the government is running healthcare. Imagine the idiots running the DVM or government schools trying to find the high tech treatments to save our lives. for the most part capitalism (private companies) have been managing the Internet and healthcare in the U.S.A. When Obama and the UN take over these then of course they will ruin these things and take our freedom away . government(socialism) doesn't work.