That's why I said figuratively. Some support doesn't mean the whole valley is running on government money. Where would ARPANET be without the discovery of elec

That's why I said figuratively. Some support doesn't mean the whole valley is running on government money. Where would ARPANET be without the discovery of electricity or the massive railroad expansion throughout the US that resulted in a large telegraph network? It's pretty stupid to tie the valley to one particular invention supported by the government when it depends on essentially all of history until this point.