Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf on Al Gore and Internet: No other elected official, to our knowledge,

[bananas]

This was on the front page of www.reddit.com earlier today, there are 111 comments:

http://programming.reddit.com/info/2mqy2/comments

Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf on Al Gore and Internet: No other elected official, to our knowledge, has made a greater contribution over a longer period of time. (amsterdam.nettime.org)
http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0009/msg00311.html

[NNadir]

1. This is relevant to Energy and the Environment how?

Let me see if I can guess.

All of the energy produced by solar electrical is consumed by servers keeping websites going promoting solar energy.

Thus the internet is relevant to solar energy and thus the question of the internet's invention is relevant to the forum of Energy and the Environment.

Is that it?

It doesn't fucking matter at this point, does it really? Al Gore was deprived of the office to which he was elected, but not because of the stupid tiff about who invented the internet.

I will be dead honest. I'll bet a zillion dollars that if Al Gore had served in the office to which he was elected, all of the disciples would be running around criticizing him for being a traitor to their little provincial outlooks.