[ih] FYI - Gordon Crovitz/WSJ on "Who Really Invented the Internet?"

Richard Bennett richard at bennett.com
Wed Jul 25 15:20:10 PDT 2012


The Wired article by Bruce Sterling did something even more funny, 
confusing the Timothy B. Lee who writes for Ars Technica with Sir Tim 
Berners-Lee, the web dude.

On 7/24/2012 10:51 PM, Joly MacFie wrote:
>
> Btw I just checked and a google search on "gordon crovitz" + 
> "internet" finds 8980 pages in the last week.. http://bit.ly/MFO69a
>
> Although one of them is an announcement that Marin Software just added 
> him to their board.
>
> I had to laugh at the Slate refutation quoted by Lauren Weinstein that 
> proceeded to spell Kahn Khan, but at least they corrected themselves 
> later.
> http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/07/who_invented_the_internet_the_outrageous_conservative_claim_that_every_tech_innovation_came_from_private_enterprise_.2.html 
>
>
> I wonder if we'll ever see a similar correction from Crovitz.
>
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