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May 17, 2006, 11:04:42 PM5/17/06
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Stevo <blue_m...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 20:01:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Stevo <blue_m...@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [DiehardDems] *Al Gore NEVER said he "invented the Internet"*
To: Dieha...@yahoogroups.com

   Right you are hapi.  The Internet, started out as a Defense Dept. program, with only military options in mind.  It was called "Arpanet".  Al Gore saw the commercial applications and implications of it, if only it was opened up to the average person.  Mr. Gore worked long and hard to write legislation and find the funding to make possible all that we now take for granted.  And for that, he got crucified.   Stevo

hapi22 <hap...@earthlink.net> wrote:
Okay, now that Al Gore -- correctly or not -- is being talked about as a possible candidate for the presidency in 2008, it's not a moment too soon to clear up a few things.
Many, many lies were told about Al Gore in the 2000 campaign and some of those lies are being used as laugh-lines by even the good guys today; even Keith Olberman seems to think it is funny to make up a lie about something Al Gore never said and then put Al Gore down for saying it -- except Gore NEVER said it.
Al Gore NEVER said he "invented the Internet," and I have to wonder why some think it is amusing to keep spreading this falsehood.
What did Al Gore actually say?
 
<< Gore never claimed that he "invented" the Internet, which implies that he engineered the technology. The invention occurred in the seventies and allowed scientists in the Defense Department to communicate with each other.  In a March 1999 interview with Wolf Blitzer, Gore said, "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.">>
<< But the real question is what, if anything, did Gore actually do to create the modern Internet? According to Vincent Cerf, a senior vice president with MCI Worldcom who's been called the Father of the Internet, "The Internet would not be where it is in the United States without the strong support given to it and related research areas by the Vice President [Gore] in his current role and in his earlier role as Senator."
The inventor of the Mosaic Browser, Marc Andreesen, credits Gore with making his work possible. He received a federal grant through Gore's High Performance Computing Act. The University of Pennsylvania's Dave Ferber says that without Gore the Internet "would not be where it is today."
Joseph E. Traub, a computer science professor at Columbia University, claims that Gore "was perhaps the first political leader to grasp the importance of networking the country. Could we perhaps see an end to cheap shots from politicians and pundits about inventing the Internet?">>
 
This article is from the time of the 2000 campaign, but the LIES about Gore persist even today.
 
 

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