Al Gore created the Internet?

[Nlighten1]

I need some information about this please.

[Hawkeye-X]

1. He sponsored a bill

to create the initiative to form the Internet.

Google DARPA Al Gore Internet

you'll see what you're looking for.

Edit: here's one of many: http://www.issues2000.org/askme/internet.htm

Hawkeye-X

[politicat]

2. Are you serious?

I'm sorry to seem a little incredulous, but....

we're back to THIS again?

I can give you a nutshell if you need it.....

Politicat.

[nostamj]

3. it's a very old lie from campaign 2000

he helped with legislation that moved the internet from a military thing to what it has become.

it was a RW lie that he ever claimed credit.

ready anything about campaign 2000 for all the (tedious frankly) details.

it was nothing that the right BASHED with for months.

[Cheswick2.0]

11. he did more than help with legislation

he wrote and sponsored the legislation and found the funding. In a very real sense he did not "invent" the internet, but he did create it or bring it into being.

[ramblin_dave]

4. Try this

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.htm

[Snow]

5. This very good site covered

that item and all the other slander of Gore during the campaign.
http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh111003.shtml

[ParanoidPat]

6. From a Google search for "Al Gore", internet

From http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22Al+Gore%22%2C+internet&btnG=Google+Search">Google.com...

Al Gore and the Creation of the Internet
... Al Gore invented the Internet. ... I am taking the liberty of sending to you both a brief
summary of Al Gore's Internet involvement, prepared by Bob Kahn and me. ...
Description: This article explores how the perception arose that Gore in essence padded his resume by claiming...
Category: Regional > North America > ... > Politics > Personalities > Gore, Al
www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_10/wiggins/ - 62k - Cached - Similar pages

Inventing the Internet. Did Al Gore Invent the Internet?
... Internet is today. Inventing the Internet Did Al Gore Invent the Internet?
What's the real story behind Al Gore Inventing the Internet? ...
www.perkel.com/politics/gore/internet.htm - 13k - Cached - Similar pages

Wired News: No Credit Where It's Due
... Email was flourishing. The culture of the Internet was starting to
develop through the Jargon File and the SF-Lovers mailing list. ...
Description: Vice President Gore tells a reporter the Internet was his idea. Nice try, Al. Declan McCullagh reports...
Category: News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Politics
www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,18390,00.html - 16k - Cached - Similar pages

Red Rock Eater Digest - Al Gore and the Internet
Click Here. Who Invented "Invented"?: Tracing the Real Story of the "Al Gore Invented
the Internet" Hoax Phil Agre http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/ 17 October ...
commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/ RRE.Al.Gore.and.the.Inte1.html - 27k - Cached - Similar pages

Red Rock Eater Digest - Al Gore and the Internet
Click Here. to be the most successful flat-out lie since, well, the last one. ...
commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/ RRE.Al.Gore.and.the.Inte.html - 16k - Cached - Similar pages
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Infothought: Felten, more on conference / press and Al Gore - ...
... March 26, 2003. Felten, more on conference / press and Al Gore - Internet.
Edward Felten has an interesting response to my reply to ...
www.sethf.com/infothought/blog/archives/000234.html - 13k - Cached - Similar pages

Al Gore "invented the Internet" - resources
Al Gore "invented the Internet" - resources. ... The basic debunking of the story:
Al Gore and The Internet Red Rock Eater News Service, Phil Agre, Mar. ...
www.sethf.com/gore/ - 9k - Cached - Similar pages
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Al Gore Internet Access for All
... Al Gore Internet Access for All. Greetings. I'll leave it to others
to carry on the important work former president Clinton started ...
www.april-fools.us/al-gore-internet.htm - 31k - Cached - Similar pages

Al Gore's "Internet History - A Retrospective"
Al Gore's "Internet History - A Retrospective". Seth David
Schoen [e-mail] Sat, 13 Mar 1999 20:39:39 -0800: ...
Description: Al Gore, inventor of the Internet, talks about the history of the Internet.
Category: Recreation > Humor > Computer > RFCs > Fake
www.crackmonkey.org/pipermail/crackmonkey/ 1999q1/003721.html - 27k - Cached - Similar pages

salon :: :: col :: rose :: Did Gore invent the Internet?, By ...
... October 05, 2000 | That Al Gore once claimed to have "invented the Internet" is
now part of electoral folklore -- one item in a litany of Gore "exaggerations ...
www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2000/10/05/gore_internet/ - Similar pages

[maddezmom]

7. You are kidding...

right? :eyes:

[La_Serpiente]

8. NO

but he contributed to creating it.

Excerpt from Al Franken's book "Lies and the Lying Liars that tell them" (Pg. 40-41)

The Internet, as you may know, because a big hit in the nineties and briefly enjoyed a great deal of media coverage. With this in mind, Gore told Wolf Blitzer in a 1999 interview, "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
What do you suppose he meant? That, late at night in his office in the Russel Building, after the other senators had gone home, he had written the PASCAL code that allowed packet switching? Probably not. No. What he seemed to be doing is what members of Congress do: He was taking credit for a program he championed and funded. In this case, one that revolutionized the information in frastructure of the entire world.

What an asshole.

The phrase "invented the Internet" first appeard in a Republican Party press release and would be repeated by the "liberal" press thousands of times during the campaign. What should have been an enormous credit to the man's vision became a symbol of his insidious, compulsive dishonesty. Ironically, Gore was sometimes criticiezed via the Internet itself!

[RandomKoolzip]

9. Ehat Gore said was that he was one of the few politicians to

recognize the potential of the Arpanet, the precursor to the internet, and to further promote the evolution of it into what it has become. Not once ever did he make the claim that he invented the interenet. Another misrepresented fact seized upon by the BUsh spin doctors and repeated ad nauseum until nobody dared check its veracity....

[Doomsayer13]

10. one of the most incredible right wing lies of the last decade

[stinkeefresh]

15. sometime in the distant future...

when most details about present day have been lost to time, the only things anyone will "know" about Al Gore is that he was robbed of the presidency in 2000, and that he invented the internet. This will be a heroic memory, because everyone in the future will understand that it was the internet was the mighty tool that allowed the world to defeat fascism.

What began as a horrid lie about what he did or did not claim will eventually be reduced to innacurate history, just like Washington's Cherry Tree.

And people will celebrate Al and the internet. Which I think is poetic justice.

[newyawker99]

17. Hi stinkeefresh!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[RetroLounge]

12. You must be kidding, right?

Over 1000 post and you don't know this?

Must be a lounge lizard :)

[Karenina]

18. WHO cut the cheese?

.

[bowens43]

13. Why?

[BlueEyedSon]

14. If Marc Addreesen says so....

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."

Mosaic, as you all know was the precurser of the Netscape browser. The availability of a free, user friendly browser is what made the Internet something for everyone (not just the DARPA scientists) to use.

[htuttle]

16. Vincent Cerf says that too...

...and he invented TCP/IP.

[louis-t]

19. I wish he could....

...invent a way to keep spam off of my computer.

[dennis4868]

20. good luck....

and if you do it let me know how!