So, who really did invent the Internet?

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So, who really did invent the Internet?
by Michael Hiltzik

Los Angeles Times
July 23, 2012,

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-mo-who-invented-internet-20120723,0,5052169.story

Gordon Crovitz of the Wall Street Journal's editorial page
reopens the ancient debate over who invented the Internet, by
calling its government origins an "urban legend." But he's
wrong. My book, "Dealers of Lightning" bolsters, not
contradicts, the argument that the Internet had its roots in
ARPANet, the Advanced Research Projects Agency based at the
Pentagon. ARPANet was very much the precursor of the Internet as we know it today. Private enterprise had no interest in something so visionary and complex, with questionable commercial opportunities...

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