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[Ken Jennings <ken_jennings@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 19 November 2006 06:39, John Andersen wrote:
> On Sunday 19 November 2006 02:05, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > On Sunday 19 November 2006 06:16, M Harris wrote:
> > > 	And then there was BASIC... basically stolen also... Billy Gates
> > > inventing BASIC is almost as laughable as ALGORE inventing the
> > > internet... now that I think of it... BASIC is the *only* program Billy
> > > ever "wrote"....   hmmm.
> >
> > The difference of course is that Gore never claimed to have invented the
> > Internet, merely that he acted in his role as senator to push through the
> > financing to make it happen - which is true
> >
> > The invention claim is just the right wing spin to make him look stupid -
> > please stop propagating it
>
> http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

Whoever wrote that page is just engaging in left wing spin to split hairs and 
make Gore look smart.

The article tries to equate Gore's alleged motivating force behind the 
internet with Eisenhower's push for the interstate system.  The difference is 
Eisenhower had already seen an existing highway system in Germany and the 
bills and legislation pushed in the US for the highway system were 
specifically to meet the direct goal of building high speed, highway system.
 
Here's Al Gore's quote, "During my service in the United States Congress, I 
took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving 
forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our 
country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our 
educational system."

HE says HE took the initiative in creating the Internet. He was rightfully 
derided for trying to elevate himself in importance to the internet by the 
predominately left-wing press which summarized his statement as, "inventing".

He's telling us to believe he could see the end result of hundreds of little 
bills, pork projects, defense appropriations, and research requests while he 
was in congress, and that he is responsible for these myriad efforts that 
helped create the internet.  However, if you read the whole page, it also 
admits, "many of the components of today's Internet came into being well 
before Gore's first term in Congress began in 1977."

Self promotion is what politicians do.  There are hundreds of politicians who 
happend to vote the same on bills as Al Gore without knowing what they were 
doing, like Al Gore. The difference is he tried to represent his history as 
something that it was not, and so was publically spanked for it.
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