http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2008/10/23/who-invented-the-internet/ Economics of organizations, strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation, and more Sat, 26 May 2012 19:17:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2008/10/23/who-invented-the-internet/#comment-71817 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:22:12 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.wordpress.com/?p=2962#comment-71817 Tom Peters wrote a great article called “The Mythology of Innovation: A Skunkworks Tale” in the Stanford alumni magazine back in 1993 or so. He used many examples to argue that bootleg, illegitimate projects created many, many important things. If memory serves, the Sidewinder air-to-air missile, the workhorse of the Western inventory, was a project run sub rosa by people who believed in infra-red homing, even after it was ordered killed by the bosses.

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