On Sunday 19 November 2006 16:54, Ken Jennings wrote:
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."
Components, yes. TCP/IP was designed well before that. But it wasn't "the Internet" until the early 90s. Like I said, he never claimed to have invented it, merely to have pushed for its general use.
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.
No, there were two differences. One was that he was one of the most active sponsors of these bills, not just one of the people voting for them. The other difference is that he ran for president, and was caught in the traditional right wing spin cycle that the "liberal" media publishes as a matter of course I suppose you noticed the last paragraph as well. Just in case you didn't http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/specialwin.php The Webby Lifetime Achievement Award: Former Vice President Al Gore Setting the record straight on one of recent history's most persistent political myths, The Webby Awards will present Former Vice President Al Gore with The Webby Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of the pivotal role he has played in the development of the internet over the past three decades. Vint Cerf, widely credited as one of the "fathers of the internet," will present Vice President Gore with the award. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org