No, Billionaires don’t own the internet
Although some Republicans apparently think they do.
First up, Here’s a little bit of history for you;
An English guy called Tim Berners Lee devised a way to allow him to access a main frame research computer that was in another room and access and display that information in his screen using the HTML markup language which effectively meant that information could be shared between users which was the purpose of the internet. This happened in 1989.
Later Al Gore stood up on stage and told Americans to go and use this new thing called the internet.
A little while after that various clever guys at different colleges around the US started to have ideas about stuff that could be done online.
Some of those guys and girls were lucky enough to start internet businesses that went on to be hugely successful and listed on the NASDAQ and made their founders into billionaires.
That’s doesn’t mean those people “own” the internet. It means they own companies that are based online.
First up, Here’s a little bit of history for you;
An English guy called Tim Berners Lee devised a way to allow him to access a main frame research computer that was in another room and access and display that information in his screen using the HTML markup language which effectively meant that information could be shared between users which was the purpose of the internet. This happened in 1989.
Later Al Gore stood up on stage and told Americans to go and use this new thing called the internet.
A little while after that various clever guys at different colleges around the US started to have ideas about stuff that could be done online.
Some of those guys and girls were lucky enough to start internet businesses that went on to be hugely successful and listed on the NASDAQ and made their founders into billionaires.
That’s doesn’t mean those people “own” the internet. It means they own companies that are based online.
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