On July 22 the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed column by Gordon Crovitz, the former publisher of the paper and a regular columnist, entitled ""

The basic premise of the column was that government had little of nothing to do with the invention of what we now know as the Internet.

While there are occasional flashes of something resembling the truth in the column it is quite amazing how few there are.

The column was quickly rebutted by a number of people that were there when the Internet was invented - including Vint Cerf and , , (the author of a book Crovitz cited), as well as hundreds of others in various forums. I was "there" for some of the story and I know that much of what Crovitz claims is poppycock.