What is the best thing that government has created?

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@nirgrahamUK

which rinkidink did you enjoy the most?

This one billion dollar annually funded rinkidink:

@DD5

A colleague of mine today said the INTERNET was an example of a government creation that revolutionized our lives for the better. I get this government created the internet stuff a lot.. Any attempt to debunk this myth in a one or two liner always comes out as some desperate attempt to excuse government success.

Anyone familiar with a good article (perhaps here) that debunks this myth.

Government and Innovation

Government supporters like to suggest that the internet is a government project. They claim that the computer industry owes its existence to the Pentagon. Neither of these claims is true. The internet grew when the Pentagon took its hands off of it. Computers were developed without the Pentagon. These inventions have military applications and defense departments have always been very interested in them, but the defense departments did not develop them. Actually the explosive growth of the inte…