http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet
She gets full credit for starting her business. But she wouldn't have that opportunity if the government hadn't invested in computers and networks that
led to the internet. Now look at the world-wide jobs that have been created from that government initial investment. The US Federal Government is
the biggest job creator in world history.
You've gone off the reservation. The Government didn't create the computer. They might have
invested in computers, but so too did millions of businesses, creating many more millions of jobs from computing than the Government has.
You should brush up on your knowledge of the origins of computing:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000984.htm
ARPANET and DARPANET are long considered the origins of today's internet. While the Defense Department drove the initiative in the 1960s, they didn't have the expertise in house to build the packet switching networks, and instead contracted with commercial businesses to build the network. From these networks, came many of the protocols (like TCP/IP) that were the basis of the Internet (not Al Gore....). In the 1980s, NSF funded 7 national super computing centers for Universities and provided inter-connectivity with NSFNET. This was all still Government and higher education limited.
It wasn't until private business got involved that we got to the World Wide Web. The Government had neither the foresight nor the capability to do so. They could have perhaps contracted with commercial companies, but didn't see the "need" (translation: no vision).
Tim Berners-Lee (TimBL) of the UK is commonly referred to as the inventor of the modern-day WWW as he developed and delivered the first HTTP communication and is the current head of the World Wide Web Consortium.
So, back to your claim - just like a Liberal to lay claim to something this broad. It's an uneducated, baseless claim.
There are thousands of layers of depths and developments that went into today's "Internet" - computing, networks, protocols, systems, content, business designs and applications - just to scratch the surface. There is no one "origin" to any of it. It was small step after step after step - the majority of which occurred in the private sector - that led to what we see today. The Government didn't invest "first" or "more" than the commercial world did. The Government didn't "invent" it all. They were behind a few slices of a very very massive pie. I'll give them credit for needing a network and contracting private business to build it. Finally, the Government hasn't come CLOSE on the job creation front in computing as compared to the private sector.
PS...if she gets full credit for starting her business, why don't conservatives who started theirs? And back to my original rebuttal, why do you not view her as an evil 1%er? What, specifically, makes her different, in your eyes?
