‘The 21st Century Tech President’ said Saturday morning that the U.S. will launch new investments in its infrastructure – including a boost of broadband accessibility – as part of a larger strategy to revitalize the economy and create jobs. Specifically, President-elect Barack Obama said broadband connections need to be made widely available to school children and hospitals. Hospitals should be able to connect to each other via the Internet. He said:
It is unacceptable that the United States ranks 15th in the world in broadband adoption. Here, in the country that invented the Internet, every child should have the chance to get online, and they’ll get that chance when I’m president – because that’s how we’ll strengthen America’s competitiveness in the world.
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James A.S.Wilson
The U.S military did not invent the Worls Wide Web or the internet
An Oxford educated English scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web first operated in 1991.
Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, HTML, HTTP and URL’s assisted by colleagues at CERN, the internatiaonal science organisation in Geneva Switzerland.
Chanuka Wattegama
@James,
Obama refers to Internet; not www. There is a difference, though the two often treated synonyms.
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