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Oh those wacky congressional staffers.

Also, they should Google the creation date of the internet. :-)

"(2) NTIS was established in 1950, more than 40 years before the creation of the Internet."



...more than 40 years before the creation of the [World Wide Web].

I think the internet, were it a person, would've been old enough to vote, if not drink in 1990.


To be fair the Internet that we know today only really became a consumer service in the 90's. Whilst its origins are before then, it was used by groups which we would class as researchers and early adopters.




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