IMPORTANT!!! GOOGLE (Sergey Brin) & LUCENT
Been trying to post for a couple days but the new iOS update has this phonefag all messed up.
From Land of Promise by Michael Lind:
"Jack Welch, the CEO of General Electric, sold off Bell Labs to a French Company, Lucent" (p. 437).
Bell Labs was the mostly government funded R&D arm of Ma Bell and began in the late 1800s. When Ma Bell was forced to break up under Antitrust litigation, Bell Labs was sold off to GE (a JP Morgan company).
GOOGLE:
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was created in response to Sputnik. It was renamed DARPA in 1972, switched back to ARPA in 1993, and back to DARPA again in 1996.
ARPA and MIT created ARPANET (the first internet) and it allowed ARPA researchers to communicate with each other. "In 1986, ARPANET was connected to NSFNET, a network created by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to allow researchers funded by its grants to communicate with each other….A side trail leads us fgrom NSFNET to Vannevar Bush's brainchild, the NSF, from which another side trail goes to a discussion of the Digital Library Initiative (DLI). Among the graduate students funded by the DLI project were Larry Page and SERGEY BRIN, who was also supported by an NSF graduate student fellowship. Their research led them to create a superior search engine and in 1998 - with an initial office in a garage, of course - they incorporated Google, Inc. With the help of Eric Schmidt as CEO, Page and Brin defeated competitors" (p. 420).
Google began as a govt funded project……….!!!!!!!!!