McCullough reminds us, without deputies doing a lot of the grunt work. All of which is to say that the history of the internet has already been refracted too much by myth. It was messy; it was ugly. Heroes often looked like fools, and vice versa. He was even reluctant to do the iPhone until he was persuaded by some of his top engineers.
Eventually he gave the green light. And what resulted was the most profitable company in the history of the world, except for maybe the Dutch East India Co. All Rights Reserved. Skip to Main Content Skip to Search. News Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content and other products and services.
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The point being, Mr. Gaines, can do whatever he likes with that website, including tricking people into thinking it offers cheap subscriptions to the newspaper. What better way to learn personal information such as name, address, phone number and credit card number?
Perfect for identity theft. Just because a famous company owns the. However, wsj. Today, it is a temporary default web page, but it belongs to someone named Natalia Skuridina. Even someone who doesn't know that wsj. The traditional answer has always been "the government," specifically the Advanced Research Projects Agency then ARPA, now DARPA at the Department of Defense, which created the network that was the precursor to our modern internet, with contributions from people working for public universities and on government contracts.
But is that traditional answer incorrect? The accepted wisdom is correct. The government created the Internet. But because the Wall Street Journal is devoted to printing plausible-sounding lies designed to appeal to its anti-government readership, they printed a column by Gordon Crovitz this week claiming that the government did not invent the Internet , because governments can't invent anything useful, ever, and it was the wonderful private sector that did all the work.
This "private sector created the internet" line rests on the fact that Ethernet was invented at PARC, a lab owned by Xerox. Even if you're only vaguely familiar with the history of the Internet and the technical aspects of computer networking, you will probably recognize that Xerox developing Ethernet is not actually a stronger claim to inventing the Internet than everything ARPA and CERN and the universities did.
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