Performance By Design

This is in response to a recent column from Wall Street Journal columnist Gordon Crovitz entitled “Who Really Invented the Internet?” This column is so misinformed and misguided that it is difficult to even know where to begin to try to correct the public record. However, I will give it a try. I am hardly the only one taking exception to the Crovitz column. The LA Times just published a rebuttal from author Michael Hilzik , whose book Crovitz cites in his column. In his LA Times article, Hilzik reports, "“My book bolsters, not contradicts, the argument that the Internet had its roots in the ARPANet, a government project.” So Crovitz's willful misinterpretation of the historical record is even more egregious than I first thought. Al Gore and the Internet. Let’s first take note of the echo of the partisan criticism leveled at Al Gore back during the Bush II-Gore 2000 election era of raucous partisan politics, ridiculing Gore for claiming that he invented the Internet....